Surname index·29 letters
Surnames, A to Z
The 3,450 surnames in the dictionary, filed under the 29 letters of the Turkish alphabet and by length. Ç, Ğ, I, İ, Ö, Ş and Ü are letters of their own, so Çelik is filed under Ç, not C, and Işık under I, not İ.
By letter
- A532 surnamesAydın #9
- B332 surnames
- C62 surnamesCan #27
- Ç141 surnamesÇelik #4
- D186 surnamesDemir #3
- E187 surnamesErdoğan #26
- F17 surnames
- G186 surnamesGüneş #29
- Ğ–
- H59 surnames
- I11 surnames
- İ61 surnames
- J–
- K435 surnamesKaya #2
- L9 surnames
- M83 surnames
- N31 surnames
- O62 surnames
- Ö174 surnamesÖztürk #8
- P56 surnamesPolat #19
- R12 surnames
- S204 surnames
- Ş73 surnamesŞahin #6
- T241 surnames
- U57 surnames
- Ü42 surnames
- V16 surnames
- Y159 surnamesYılmaz #1
- Z22 surnames
Rank: TÜİK ADNKS 2025 national ranking. No Turkish word begins with Ğ.
By number of letters
How does the Turkish alphabet order surnames?
The modern Turkish alphabet replaced the Arabic script under Law No. 1353, adopted on 1 November 1928. It has 29 letters: 8 vowels (a, e, ı, i, o, ö, u, ü) and 21 consonants. Q, W and X are not part of it, and letters with a circumflex (â, î, û) do not count as separate letters. In alphabetical order Ç follows C, Ğ follows G, Ö follows O, Ş follows S and Ü follows U, while dotless I comes before dotted İ. So Çelik comes after Cengiz but before Dağ, and Işık comes before İnce, the same order used by Turkish dictionaries, phone books and official lists. This index files every surname by these rules and under its Turkish spelling; a name typed without Turkish characters (Ozturk, Celik) is still found by the search.
The busiest initials are A (532), K (435) and B (332). None of the surnames in the dictionary begins with J. The most common length is 5 letters (945 surnames).