Surname index·Letter
Surnames beginning with F
Only 17 surnames begin with F, 0.5% of all entries, which makes it one of the rarer initials. None of them is in the national top 30 of TÜİK ADNKS 2025, so each is rarer than every name on that list.
- Surnames
- 17
- in this index
- In the national top 30
- 0
- ADNKS 2025
17 surnames in Turkish alphabetical order
- Fakih jurist, scholar of law
- Fazlıoğlu son of Fazlı
- Feray moonlight, gleam of the moon
- Ferman edict, decree
- Fersoy radiant lineage
- Fettahoğlu son of Fettah
- Feyzioğlu son of Feyzi
- Fındık hazel, hazelnut
- Fındıklı place of hazelnuts; a district of Rize
- Fındıkoğlu son of Fındık (hazelnut)
- Fırat the Euphrates
- Fırıncı baker
- Fırtına storm
- Fidan sapling
- Filiz sprout, young shoot
- Fişek cartridge, firework
- Fosforoğlu son of Fosfor (‘phosphorus’)
The letter F in Turkish surnames
Old Turkic had no f sound, so almost every Turkish word that begins with F is a loan: from Arabic (fazıl ‘virtuous’, feyz ‘abundance, inspiration’), from Persian (firuze ‘turquoise’) or, later, from Greek, Italian and French. F-surnames are correspondingly few. Fırat is the Turkish name of the Euphrates, and fidan ‘sapling’ is traced to Greek.
The surnames under this letter, in figures
The meanings are spread over 11 categories; the largest are “Patronymic -oğlu surnames” (4), “Trees and forest” (2) and “Names of mountains, rivers and places” (2). Borrowed roots are in the majority here: Arabic (9), Persian (2), French (2), Greek (2), against 2 Turkic. On average they have 6.9 letters, longer than the dictionary average of 6.3. The longest are Fettahoğlu, Fındıkoğlu and Fosforoğlu (10 letters), the shortest Fakih, Feray and Fırat and others (5). In vowel harmony, names with only back vowels lead (8) over front-vowel names (2); 7 mix the two, usually a sign of a compound or a loan.