Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

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Yerlikaya

Yerlikaya /jeɾlikaˈja/

“native rock, rock that stays put”2

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

How do you pronounce Yerlikaya?

Yerlikaya

IPA /jeɾlikaˈja/

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

What does the surname Yerlikaya mean?

Built from yerli and kaya. Yerli means both “native, belonging to a place” and “fixed in its place”; joined with kaya “rock”, it gives the image of a rooted rock that does not move.2,3

Grammar The adjective yerli (yer + -li) combined with the noun kaya.

That Yerlikaya goes back to yerli and kaya is probable rather than proven: the dictionaries cited agree on it.

What is Yerlikaya made of?

Yerlikaya breaks into 2 parts: yerli (yerli: native, local, settled) + kaya (kaya: rock).

Yerlikaya + root yerli yerli: native, local,settled TURKIC yerli “native, local; fixed inits place” root kaya kaya: rock TURKIC kaya “large mass of hardstone, rock” Yerlikaya yerli root yerli: native, local, settled yerli TURKIC “native, local; fixed in itsplace” kaya root kaya: rock kaya TURKIC “large mass of hard stone, rock”
Yerlikaya: parts and root words
  • yerli Turkic — native, local; fixed in its place2
  • kaya Turkic — large mass of hard stone, rock3

How was the name Yerlikaya formed?

Yerlikaya belongs to the “compound” class of surnames (yerli + kaya).

Which surnames are related to Yerlikaya?

Yerlikaya Kaya Akkaya Çetinkaya Karakaya Sarıkaya Özkaya Yalçınkaya Kayalı Kızılkaya Şahinkaya Kayacan Kayalar
Circle area shows the number of bearers; dashed circle: no national count published. Solid line: same root; dashed line: same affix.
#SurnameRelationRankPeople
01 Kaya same root 2 899,722
02 Akkaya same root – –
03 Çetinkaya same root – –
04 Karakaya same root – –
05 Sarıkaya same root – –
06 Özkaya same root – –
07 Yalçınkaya same root – –
08 Kayalı same root – –
09 Kızılkaya same root – –
10 Şahinkaya same root – –
11 Kayacan same root – –
12 Kayalar same root – –

Where in Türkiye is Yerlikaya most common?

Yerlikaya is outside the national top 30, but it appears in the top-30 list of 1 province; its best rank is 21st in Bolu.1

Adana Adıyaman Afyonkarahisar Ağrı Amasya Ankara Antalya Artvin Aydın Balıkesir Bilecik Bingöl Bitlis Bolu · rank 21 · 1,233 people 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 Yalova Karabük Kilis Osmaniye Düzce Hover or focus a province · ADNKS 2025
  • In the province top 30 1
  • Not listed
Yerlikaya: rank by province, 2025 (TÜİK ADNKS, province top-30 lists)
Provinces with the most bearers
#ProvinceRankPeople
01Bolu211,233

Who are some well-known people named Yerlikaya?

  1. Hamza Yerlikaya politician 1976–
  2. Ali Yerlikaya bureaucrat 1968–
  3. Hayrettin Yerlikaya association football player 1981–
  4. Vahdet Sinan Yerlikaya politician 1951–
  5. İlhan Yerlikaya politician 1960–
  6. Aslıhan Yerlikaya researcher
  7. Azmi Yerlikaya researcher
  8. Fırat Yerlikaya researcher

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

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: yerli accessed 8 November 2026
  3. 3 Wikimedia Vikisözlük: kaya 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 Yerlikaya

Q1

What does the surname Yerlikaya mean?

Built from yerli and kaya. Yerli means both “native, belonging to a place” and “fixed in its place”; joined with kaya “rock”, it gives the image of a rooted rock that does not move.
Q2

What is the origin of the surname Yerlikaya?

The root word of Yerlikaya is yerli (Turkic): “native, local; fixed in its place”.
Q3

How do you pronounce Yerlikaya?

Yer·li·ka·ya, 4 syllables; IPA: /jeɾlikaˈja/.