Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

SURNAMEEntry 1,999

Kılıçkan

Kılıçkan /kɯɫɯtʃˈkan/ ASCII Kilickan

“sword + blood”2

Letters / syllables
8 / 3
Formation
Compound
Vowel harmony
back
Initial
K
Contents§1–§10
  1. §1Pronunciation
  2. §2Meaning
  3. §3Root tree
  4. §4Formation & 1934
  5. §5Name family
  6. §6Notable people
  7. §7Abroad
  8. §8Sources
  9. §9Questions
  10. §10Related

How do you pronounce Kılıçkan?

Kılıçkan

IPA /kɯɫɯtʃˈkan/

The stress usually falls on syllable 3 (marked). In everyday Turkish, stress in surnames varies by speaker and region.

What does the surname Kılıçkan mean?

The name joins kılıç ‘sword’ and kan. Among names with Kılıç, Nişanyan Adlar explains Dalkılıç as ‘drawn sword’ and Kankılıç as ‘blood sword’, and counts them among the martial names promoted by the Republic in the 1930s. The element -kan in such names is usually read as ‘blood, lineage’. Kılıç continues Old Turkic kılıç, according to Nişanyan.1,2

Grammar kılıç + kan.

That Kılıçkan goes back to kılıç and kan is probable rather than proven: the dictionaries cited agree on it.

What is Kılıçkan made of?

Kılıçkan breaks into 2 parts: kılıç (sword) + kan (blood; lineage).

Kılıçkan + root kılıç sword TURKIC kılıç “sword” root kan blood; lineage TURKIC kan “blood; lineage” Kılıçkan kılıç root sword kılıç TURKIC “sword” kan root blood; lineage kan TURKIC “blood; lineage”
Kılıçkan: parts and root words
  • kılıç Turkic — sword2
  • kan Turkic — blood; lineage1

How was the name Kılıçkan formed?

Kılıçkan belongs to the “compound” class of surnames (kılıç + kan).

Which surnames are related to Kılıçkan?

Kılıçkan Kılıç Özkan Alkan Arıkan Gürkan Kandemir Atakan Türkkan Durukan Demirkan Kılıçaslan Soykan
Circle area shows the number of bearers; dashed circle: no national count published. Solid line: same root; dashed line: same affix.
#SurnameRelationRankPeople
01 Kılıç same root 13 450,572
02 Özkan same root 22 245,254
03 Alkan same root – –
04 Arıkan same root – –
05 Gürkan same root – –
06 Kandemir same root – –
07 Atakan same root – –
08 Türkkan same root – –
09 Durukan same root – –
10 Demirkan same root – –
11 Kılıçaslan same root – –
12 Soykan same root – –

Who are some well-known people named Kılıçkan?

  1. Zafer Kılıçkan association football player 1973–
  2. Hüseyin Kılıçkan writer 1933–2019

People surnamed Kılıçkan as recorded in Wikidata, ordered by the number of Wikipedia language editions.

How is Kılıçkan written and pronounced abroad?

In records outside Turkey the name usually appears as Kilickan: ı/İ become i/I; ç becomes c (German tsch, English ch).

Where do these facts come from?

  1. 1 nisanyanadlar.com nisanyanadlar.com: Kılıç accessed 8 November 2026
  2. 2 Sevan Nişanyan Nişanyan Sözlük: kılıç accessed 8 November 2026
  3. 3 Wikimedia Foundation Wikidata: people with this family name accessed 8 November 2026
  4. 4 T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Kanunu (Kanun No. 2525) accessed 8 November 2026
  5. 5 T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Nizamnamesi (Bakanlar Kurulu Kararı 2/1759) accessed 8 November 2026
  6. 6 Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK)ADNKS TÜİK Nüfus İsim Portalı: En çok kullanılan soyisimler (ADNKS) accessed 8 November 2026

Common questions about Kılıçkan

Q1

What does the surname Kılıçkan mean?

The name joins kılıç ‘sword’ and kan. Among names with Kılıç, Nişanyan Adlar explains Dalkılıç as ‘drawn sword’ and Kankılıç as ‘blood sword’, and counts them among the martial names promoted by the Republic in the 1930s. The element -kan in such names is usually read as ‘blood, lineage’. Kılıç continues Old Turkic kılıç, according to Nişanyan.
Q2

What is the origin of the surname Kılıçkan?

The root word of Kılıçkan is kılıç (Turkic): “sword”.
Q3

How do you pronounce Kılıçkan?

Kı·lıç·kan, 3 syllables; IPA: /kɯɫɯtʃˈkan/.