Surname index·Letter
Surnames beginning with B
With 332 surnames, B is the third most frequent initial in this dictionary (9.6% 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.
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332 surnames in Turkish alphabetical order
- Baba father; head of a dervish lodge
- Babacan fatherly, good-hearted
- Babadağ place name: baba + dağ
- Babalık fatherhood
- Babaoğlu son of the elder (baba)
- Badem almond
- Bademci almond seller
- Bademsoy almond lineage
- Badur hero, valiant (batur)
- Bağ vineyard; or bond
- Bağana (dialect) small child, or post
- Bağcı vine-grower
- Bağdat the city of Baghdad
- Bağış gift, donation
- Bağlı bound, loyal
- Bağrıaçık open-breasted
- Baha beauty, splendour (male name)
- Bahadır valiant hero
- Bahar spring
- Bahçeci gardener
- Bahçekapılı from Bahçekapı
- Bahçeli with a garden
- Bahçıvan gardener
- Bahri of the sea, seaman
- Bahtiyar happy, fortunate
- Bakan one who tends; minister
- Bakar ox; or ‘he looks after’
- Bakır copper
- Bakırcı coppersmith
- Bakırcıoğlu son of the coppersmith
- Baki lasting, eternal (male name)
- Bakkal grocer
- Baksı teacher, bard, shaman
- Bal honey
- Balaban bittern; reed pipe; hefty
- Balamir name of a Hun leader; robust
- Balbay honey and plenty
- Balcı honey seller, beekeeper
- Balcıoğlu son of the honey seller
- Balık fish
- Balıkçı fisherman, fishmonger
- Bali son, child
- Balkan wooded mountain range; the Balkans
- Balkar the ethnonym Balkar
- Balkaya honey rock
- Balkır glow, lightning
- Ballı honeyed; lucky
- Baloğlu son of Bal (‘honey’)
- Balta axe
- Baltacı axe-maker; woodcutter; palace halberdier
- Baltacıgil the axe-maker’s family
- Baltacıoğlu son of the axe-man
- Barak shaggy cloth; man’s name
- Baran rain
- Baransel rain torrent; wealthy
- Barbarosoğlu son of Barbaros
- Barçın silk brocade
- Bardakçı maker or seller of jugs and cups
- Barış peace
- Barka large rowing boat
- Barkan land named in the Oghuz epic
- Barkın determined traveller
- Barlas brave hero; historical tribal name
- Baron baron, title of nobility
- Bartu wealthy; fortune
- Barut gunpowder; fiery temper
- Barutçu gunpowder maker
- Baskın raid; superior, dominant
- Basmacı cloth printer
- Bastık fruit leather
- Baş head; leader
- Başak ear of grain
- Başar “succeed!”
- Başara success
- Başaran one who succeeds
- Başarır who succeeds
- Başbuğ chief, commander
- Başer leading man, chief warrior
- Başkan leader, president
- Başkaya the chief rock
- Başkır name of the Bashkir people
- Başkurt Bashkir, a Turkic people
- Başkut foremost fortune
- Başman one at the head, leader
- Başoğlu son of the chief
- Başol be a leader
- Başpınar head spring, source
- Başsan foremost in renown
- Baştan from the beginning
- Baştuğ leading standard
- Baştürk leading Turk
- Başyiğit chief of the brave
- Batır hero, warrior
- Batman old weight unit; place name
- Batmaz unsinkable
- Battal name of the epic hero Battal Gazi
- Battalgazi Battal Gazi, epic hero
- Batu firm, strong; Batu Khan
- Batum the city of Batumi
- Batumlu from Batum (Batumi)
- Batur hero, valiant
- Baturalp valiant hero
- Baturay hero + moon
- Bay rich; gentleman, Mr
- Bayar joy, festivity
- Bayat name of an Oghuz tribe
- Bayatlı from Bayat
- Bayaz white
- Bayazıt a form of the name Bayezid
- Bayazıtoğlu son of Bayazıt
- Baydemir rich, strong iron
- Baydur name of a historical Mongol commander
- Bayer prosperous, respected man
- Bayhan rich khan, noble ruler
- Bayındır Oghuz tribe name; prosperous
- Bayır hillside, slope
- Baykal name of Lake Baikal
- Baykam noble shaman
- Baykan wealthy lord; old Turkish name
- Baykara old Turkic name; Husayn Bayqara
- Baykurt noble wolf
- Baylan coy, pampered
- Bayrak flag, banner
- Bayrakçı flag-bearer
- Bayrakdar flag-bearer
- Bayraklı with a flag
- Bayraktar standard-bearer
- Bayraktaroğlu son of the flag-bearer
- Bayraktutan flag-bearer
- Bayram festival, feast day
- Bayramoğlu son of Bayram
- Baysak rich + alert
- Baysal calm, serene
- Baysan noble renown
- Baysoy a rich, noble lineage
- Baytar veterinarian
- Baytekin wealthy, noble prince
- Baytok prosperous and content
- Bebek baby
- Becerikli skilful, capable
- Bedel equivalent, price
- Bedir full moon
- Bedirhan lord full moon
- Bedirhanoğlu son of Bedirhan
- Bediz adornment
- Bedük big (old form); resin
- Behçet beauty, radiance, joy
- Behramoğlu son of Behram
- Bek firm, solid; lord
- Bekar unmarried, bachelor
- Bekaroğlu son of the bachelor
- Bekçi watchman
- Bekir the name Bekir (Bakr)
- Bekiroğlu son of Bekir
- Bektaş old Turkic name: peer; sturdy stone
- Bektaşoğlu son of Bektaş
- Bel waist; mountain pass
- Belen mountain pass
- Belge document
- Belgin clear, distinct
- Belgün clear, distinct
- Belli evident, well known
- Bender port; Bender (fortress)
- Benderlioğlu son of the man from Bender
- Bener ‘I am brave’
- Bengi eternal
The letter B in Turkish surnames
B is common at the start of native Turkish words: baş ‘head’, bay ‘rich’ (today ‘Mr’), bey ‘lord’, boz ‘grey’, bilge ‘wise’. In some words the Old Turkic initial b became v in Turkish: Old Turkic bar ‘there is’ and bér- ‘to give’ are now var and ver-, so part of the old b-vocabulary sits on the V page. Surnames such as Bozkurt ‘grey wolf’, Başaran and Bilgin keep the b.
The surnames under this letter, in figures
The meanings are spread over 46 categories; the largest are “Patronymic -oğlu surnames” (21), “Built from Turkic name elements” (20) and “Names of mountains, rivers and places” (17). Turkic roots dominate (238 surnames, 73.2%); the rest come from Arabic (36), Persian (27), Mongolic (7), French (6), Greek (6), other languages (4), Kurdish (1). On average they have 6.4 letters, close to the dictionary average of 6.3. The longest is Büyükbayraktar (14 letters), the shortest Bağ, Bal and Baş and others (3). In vowel harmony, names with only back vowels lead (178) over front-vowel names (78); 76 mix the two, usually a sign of a compound or a loan.