Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

SURNAMEEntry 3,194

Uşaklıgil

Uşaklıgil /uʃakɫɯˈɡil/ ASCII Usakligil

“the household of the man from Uşak”1

Letters / syllables
9 / 4
Formation
Place name
Vowel harmony
mixed
Initial
U
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 Uşaklıgil?

Uşaklıgil

IPA /uʃakɫɯˈɡil/

The stress usually falls on syllable 4 (marked). In everyday Turkish, stress in surnames varies by speaker and region.

What does the surname Uşaklıgil mean?

Uşaklıgil adds the household suffix -gil to Uşaklı ‘person from Uşak’: ‘the Uşaklı household, the people of the man from Uşak’. -gil names someone’s household, as in halamgil ‘my aunt and her family’.1,2

Grammar Uşak + -lı + -gil.

What is Uşaklıgil made of?

Uşaklıgil breaks into 3 parts: Uşak (province and city in western Anatolia) + -lı (from; having) + -gil (suffix for a household or family).

Uşaklıgil +++ root Uşak province and city inwestern Anatolia TURKIC Uşak “province and city in theAegean region” suffix -lı from; having suffix -gil suffix for a household orfamily TURKIC uşaklı “person from Uşak” Uşaklıgil Uşak root province and city in western Anatolia Uşak TURKIC “province and city in the Aegeanregion” -lı suffix from; having -gil suffix suffix for a household or family uşaklı TURKIC “person from Uşak”
Uşaklıgil: parts and root words
  • Uşak Turkic — province and city in the Aegean region1
  • uşaklı Turkic — person from Uşak2

How was the name Uşaklıgil formed?

Uşaklıgil belongs to the “place name” class of surnames (Uşak + -lı + -gil).

The surname is best known from the novelist Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil. According to an article by Ömer Faruk Huyugüzel, the family name appears in older texts as Uşşakizade and in modern transcriptions mostly as Uşakizade; after the Surname Law the writer adopted the pronunciation and spelling “Uşaklıgil” as his surname.3,4

Which surnames are related to Uşaklıgil?

Uşaklıgil Uşak Uşaklı
Circle area shows the number of bearers; dashed circle: no national count published. Solid line: same root; dashed line: same affix.
#SurnameRelationRankPeople
01 Uşak same root – –
02 Uşaklı same root – –

Who are some well-known people named Uşaklıgil?

  1. Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil writer 1865–1945
  2. Emine Uşaklıgil journalist 1944–
  3. Vedad Uşaklıgil diplomat 1904–1937
  4. Bülent Uşaklıgil diplomat 1904–1977

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

How is Uşaklıgil written and pronounced abroad?

Outside Türkiye the name is often written Usakligil.

Where do these facts come from?

  1. 1 Wikimedia Wiktionary: Uşak accessed 8 November 2026
  2. 2 Wikimedia Vikisözlük: uşaklı accessed 8 November 2026
  3. 3 makale.isam.org.tr makale.isam.org.tr: download accessed 8 November 2026
  4. 4 Wikimedia Wikipedia: Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil accessed 8 November 2026
  5. 5 Wikimedia Foundation Wikidata: people with this family name accessed 8 November 2026
  6. 6 T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Kanunu (Kanun No. 2525) accessed 8 November 2026
  7. 7 T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Nizamnamesi (Bakanlar Kurulu Kararı 2/1759) accessed 8 November 2026

Common questions about Uşaklıgil

Q1

What does the surname Uşaklıgil mean?

Uşaklıgil adds the household suffix -gil to Uşaklı ‘person from Uşak’: ‘the Uşaklı household, the people of the man from Uşak’. -gil names someone’s household, as in halamgil ‘my aunt and her family’.
Q2

What is the origin of the surname Uşaklıgil?

The root word of Uşaklıgil is Uşak (Turkic): “province and city in the Aegean region”.
Q3

How do you pronounce Uşaklıgil?

U·şak·lı·gil, 4 syllables; IPA: /uʃakɫɯˈɡil/.