Surname index·Length
10-letter surnames
104 of the dictionary’s 3,450 surnames have exactly 10 letters (3.0%), the seventh most common length. None of them is in the national top 30 of TÜİK ADNKS 2025, so each is rarer than every name on that list.
- Surnames
- 104
- in this index
- In the national top 30
- 0
- ADNKS 2025
104 surnames in Turkish alphabetical order
- Abasıyanık lovesick, “whose cloak is burnt”
- Akbaytogan white, wealthy falcon
- Akıncıoğlu son of the raider
- Aktürkoğlu son of Aktürk
- Alptemoçin brave ironsmith; alp + Temüjin
- Altınbilek golden wrist, strong arm
- Altınçekiç golden hammer
- Altıparmak six-fingered
- Altunbaşak golden ear of grain
- Arpacıoğlu son of the barley dealer
- Arslanboğa lion-bull
- Arslanoğlu son of Arslan (“lion”)
- Arslantürk lion-like Turk
- Aslanyürek lion-hearted
- Atabeyoğlu son of the atabeg
- Baltacıgil the axe-maker’s family
- Battalgazi Battal Gazi, epic hero
- Bayramoğlu son of Bayram
- Behramoğlu son of Behram
- Bektaşoğlu son of Bektaş
- Berberoğlu son of the barber
- Boyacıoğlu son of the dyer
- Büyüküstün great and superior
- Cebecioğlu son of the armourer
- Cerrahoğlu son of the surgeon
- Çakmakoğlu son of Çakmak
- Çalışkaner hard-working man
- Çapkınoğlu son of the playful one
- Çavdaroğlu son of Çavdar
- Çelebioğlu son of the gentleman
- Çelikbilek steel-wristed, strong
- Çetinaslan tough lion
- Çiftçioğlu son of the farmer
- Dağdeviren mountain-toppler, mighty
- Dağlaroğlu son of the mountains
- Değirmenci miller
- Demirbilek iron wrist, strong
- Demirkıran iron-breaker, very strong
- Demirkubuz iron kopuz (lute)
- Derelioğlu dereli (of the stream) + -oğlu
- Dervişoğlu son of the dervish
- Develioğlu son of the Develi
- Dizdaroğlu son of the castle warden
- Doğandemir falcon / born + iron
- Döngeloğlu medlar + -oğlu
- Durmuşoğlu son of Durmuş
- Dursunoğlu son of Dursun
- Dülgeroğlu son of the carpenter
- Eczacıbaşı chief pharmacist
- Elmaağaçlı with apple trees
- Engindeniz the vast open sea
- Evliyaoğlu son of the saint
- Fettahoğlu son of Fettah
- Fındıkoğlu son of Fındık (hazelnut)
- Fosforoğlu son of Fosfor (‘phosphorus’)
- Güneyligil the southerner’s family
- Kahramaner heroic man
- Kalelioğlu son of the one from Kale
- Karacaoğlu son of Karaca
- Karayalçın dark sheer cliff
- Karslıoğlu son of the man from Kars
- Kartaltepe eagle hill
- Kazancıgil the cauldron maker’s family
- Kılıçaslan sword-lion; name of Seljuk sultans
- Kılıçkıran sword-breaker
- Kırmızıgül red rose
- Kırmızıtaş red stone
- Kıvrıkoğlu kıvrık ‘curly’ + -oğlu
- Kızıldoğan red falcon; rising red sun
- Kızılırmak the Kızılırmak, “red river”
- Küçüközkan küçük ‘younger’ + Özkan
- Küçükşahin little hawk
- Levendoğlu son of the levent (marine; tall man)
- Menteşoğlu son of Menteş
- Moralıoğlu son of the man from the Morea
- Mursaloğlu son of Mursal (Mürsel)
- Özyağcılar the true Yağcıs (oil sellers)
- Özyıldırım true thunderbolt
- Özyılmazel true, undaunted people
- Pehlivanlı wrestler + -lı
- Poyrazoğlu son of Poyraz
- Sarıyıldız yellow star
- Sebüktekin beloved prince; Sebüktegin
- Serdaroğlu son of the commander-in-chief
- Sipahioğlu son of the sipahi
- Sökmensüer Sökmen + Süer ‘soldier’
- Şişmanoğlu son of Şişman (‘stout’)
- Tanrıverdi “God gave”
- Tanyıldızı morning star (Venus)
- Tekelioğlu son of Tekeli
- Temelkuran founder, one who lays foundations
- Tozkoparan dust-raiser, very fast
- Türkyılmaz undaunted Turk
- Vatansever patriot
- Yalçınkaya sheer, steep rock
- Yapıcıoğlu son of the builder
- Yazıcıoğlu son of the scribe
- Yıldırımlı with lightning
- Yıldızoğlu son of Yıldız
- Yılmazkaya undaunted rock
- Yılmaztürk the undaunted Turk
- Yurdatapan devoted to the homeland
- Yüksektepe high hill
- Zeytinoğlu son of Zeytin (olive)
What does a 10-letter surname look like?
Ten letters is long for a Turkish surname. Such names are usually built from three pieces or from two long ones: Değirmenci is değirmen ‘mill’ plus -ci, ‘miller’; Yazıcıoğlu stacks yaz- ‘to write’, -ıcı and oğlu, ‘son of the scribe’; Türkyılmaz and Yalçınkaya join two words that are surnames in their own right. Tanrıverdi, ‘God gave’, is an old name type whose second half is a verb.
Surnames of this length, in figures
The meanings are spread over 35 categories; the largest are “Patronymic -oğlu surnames” (17), “Appearance, body and strength” (8) and “Mountains, rocks and stones” (6). Turkic roots dominate (75 surnames, 72.1%); the rest come from Persian (14), Arabic (8), Mongolic (2), French (2), Greek (2), other languages (1). By syllables, most have 4 syllables (82); 19 have 5 syllables and 3 have 3 syllables. The most frequent initials are K (16), A (15) and D (15). By vowel harmony, names with mixed vowels form the largest group (55), which in surnames usually signals a compound or a loan; 40 have only back vowels and 9 only front vowels.