Surname index·Length
14-letter surnames
Only 8 surnames have exactly 14 letters, 0.2% of all entries. None of them is in the national top 30 of TÜİK ADNKS 2025, so each is rarer than every name on that list.
- Surnames
- 8
- in this index
- In the national top 30
- 0
- ADNKS 2025
8 surnames in Turkish alphabetical order
- Büyükbayraktar great flag-bearer
- Değirmencioğlu son of the miller
- Hacıpaşalıoğlu son of the Hacı Paşalı family
- Karaibrahimgil household of Kara İbrahim
- Karaismailoğlu son of Kara İsmail
- Sarısaltıkoğlu from the name Sarı Saltık
- Söylemezgiller the Söylemez family; the silent ones
- Taşkesenlioğlu son of the one from Taşkesen
What does a 14-letter surname look like?
A surname of 14 letters is almost always built from several parts: usually a two-word base with oğlu at the end, or a word, a derivational suffix and oğlu. Karaosmanoğlu (kara + Osman + oğlu) is the best-known example of the pattern. Many names this long go back to family names that were already in use before 1934.
Surnames of this length, in figures
The meanings are spread over 7 categories; the largest are “Patronymic -oğlu surnames” (2), “Military ranks and roles” (1) and “Farming, herding and hunting” (1). Turkic roots dominate (5 surnames, 62.5%); the rest come from Arabic (2), Persian (1). By syllables, most have 6 syllables (4); 2 have 5 syllables and 2 have 7 syllables. The most frequent initials are K (2), S (2) and B (1). By vowel harmony, names with mixed vowels form the largest group (5), which in surnames usually signals a compound or a loan; 2 have only back vowels and 1 only front vowels.