Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

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Kızılay

Kızılay /kɯzɯˈɫaj/ ASCII Kizilay

“red crescent”2

Province lists
11
province top-30s
Letters / syllables
7 / 3
Formation
Compound
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Contents§1–§11
  1. §1Pronunciation
  2. §2Meaning
  3. §3Root tree
  4. §4Formation & 1934
  5. §5Name family
  6. §6Provinces
  7. §7Notable people
  8. §8Abroad
  9. §9Sources
  10. §10Questions
  11. §11Related

How do you pronounce Kızılay?

Kızılay

IPA /kɯzɯˈɫaj/

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

What does the surname Kızılay mean?

From kızıl “bright red” and ay “moon”: “red moon”, the red crescent. In everyday Turkish ay also denotes the crescent on flags, and the same phrase is familiar as the name of Türkiye’s relief organisation.2,3

Grammar Adjective kızıl + noun ay.

That Kızılay goes back to kızıl and ay is probable rather than proven: the dictionaries cited agree on it.

What is Kızılay made of?

Kızılay breaks into 2 parts: kızıl (kızıl: bright red) + ay (ay: moon; crescent).

Kızılay ++ first element kızıl kızıl: bright red TURKIC kızıl “bright red” suffix ay ay: moon; crescent TURKIC ay “the moon; the crescentused as a symbol on…” Kızılay kızıl first element kızıl: bright red kızıl TURKIC “bright red” ay suffix ay: moon; crescent ay TURKIC “the moon; the crescent used as asymbol on flags”
Kızılay: parts and root words
  • kızıl Turkic — bright red2
  • ay Turkic — the moon; the crescent used as a symbol on flags3

How was the name Kızılay formed?

Kızılay belongs to the “compound” class of surnames (kızıl + ay).

Which surnames are related to Kızılay?

Kızılay Kızıl Kızılkaya Kızıldağ Kızıltaş Kızıltuğ Kızılcık Kızıltepe Kızıltunç Kızılcan Kızıldoğan Kızılok Kızılboğa
Circle area shows the number of bearers; dashed circle: no national count published. Solid line: same root; dashed line: same affix.
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01 Kızıl same root – –
02 Kızılkaya same root – –
03 Kızıldağ same root – –
04 Kızıltaş same root – –
05 Kızıltuğ same root – –
06 Kızılcık same root – –
07 Kızıltepe same root – –
08 Kızıltunç same root – –
09 Kızılcan same root – –
10 Kızıldoğan same root – –
11 Kızılok same root – –
12 Kızılboğa same root – –

Where in Türkiye is Kızılay most common?

Kızılay is outside the national top 30, but it appears in the top-30 list of 1 province; its best rank is 20th in Iğdır.1

Adana Adıyaman Afyonkarahisar Ağrı Amasya Ankara Antalya Artvin Aydın Balıkesir Bilecik Bingöl Bitlis Bolu Burdur Bursa Çanakkale Çankırı Çorum Denizli Diyarbakır Edirne Elazığ Erzincan Erzurum Eskişehir Gaziantep Giresun Gümüşhane Hakkari Hatay Isparta Mersin Istanbul Izmir Kars Kastamonu Kayseri Kırklareli Kırşehir Kocaeli Konya Kütahya Malatya Manisa Kahramanmaraş Mardin Muğla Muş Nevşehir Niğde Ordu Rize Sakarya Samsun Siirt Sinop Sivas Tekirdağ Tokat Trabzon Tunceli Şanlıurfa Uşak Van Yozgat Zonguldak Aksaray Bayburt Karaman Kırıkkale Batman Şırnak Bartın Ardahan Iğdır · rank 20 · 796 people Yalova Karabük Kilis Osmaniye Düzce Hover or focus a province · ADNKS 2025
  • In the province top 30 1
  • Not listed
Kızılay: rank by province, 2025 (TÜİK ADNKS, province top-30 lists)
Provinces with the most bearers
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01Iğdır20796

Who are some well-known people named Kızılay?

  1. Furkan Kızılay actor 1990–
  2. Abdurrahman Kızılay musician 1938–2010
  3. Cezmi Kızılay taekwondo athlete
  4. Deniz Özalp Kızılay researcher
  5. Fatih Kızılay association football player 1998–
  6. Fuat Kızılay researcher
  7. Hasan Kızılay researcher
  8. Onur Kızılay researcher

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

How is Kızılay written and pronounced abroad?

Without Turkish letters the name is written Kizilay in English and German records.

Where do these facts come from?

  1. 1 Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK)ADNKS TÜİK Nüfus İsim Portalı: En çok kullanılan soyisimler (ADNKS) accessed 8 November 2026
  2. 2 Wikimedia Vikisözlük: kızıl accessed 8 November 2026
  3. 3 Wikimedia Vikisözlük: ay accessed 8 November 2026
  4. 4 Wikimedia Foundation Wikidata: people with this family name accessed 8 November 2026
  5. 5 T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Kanunu (Kanun No. 2525) accessed 8 November 2026
  6. 6 T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Nizamnamesi (Bakanlar Kurulu Kararı 2/1759) accessed 8 November 2026
  7. 7 Natural Earth Natural Earth: Admin-1 boundaries accessed 8 November 2026

Common questions about Kızılay

Q1

What does the surname Kızılay mean?

From kızıl “bright red” and ay “moon”: “red moon”, the red crescent. In everyday Turkish ay also denotes the crescent on flags, and the same phrase is familiar as the name of Türkiye’s relief organisation.
Q2

What is the origin of the surname Kızılay?

The root word of Kızılay is kızıl (Turkic): “bright red”.
Q3

How do you pronounce Kızılay?

Kı·zı·lay, 3 syllables; IPA: /kɯzɯˈɫaj/.