Surname index·Letter
Surnames beginning with H
59 of the dictionary’s 3,450 surnames begin with H (1.7%). None of them is in the national top 30 of TÜİK ADNKS 2025, so each is rarer than every name on that list.
- Surnames
- 59
- in this index
- In the national top 30
- 0
- ADNKS 2025
59 surnames in Turkish alphabetical order
- Habib beloved, friend
- Hacıbekiroğlu son of Hacı Bekir
- Hacımüftüoğlu son of the hajji mufti
- Hacıoğlu son of the pilgrim
- Hacıpaşalıoğlu son of the Hacı Paşalı family
- Hakan emperor, khagan
- Hakim wise man; judge
- Hakkı of the truth, of God
- Hakko short form of İshak (Isaac)
- Hakverdi God has given
- Hakyemez who never cheats anyone of their due
- Halaç cotton carder
- Halat rope, or gift
- Halıcı carpet weaver or dealer
- Halil beloved, close friend
- Hamamcı bathhouse keeper
- Hamamcıoğlu son of the bathhouse keeper
- Hamdi one who praises
- Hamurcu dough maker
- Hamza lion cub; fierce
- Hamzaoğlu son of Hamza
- Han khan, ruler
- Hancı innkeeper
- Haner warrior like a khan
- Hanim lady
- Harman threshing floor, harvest
- Harmancı thresher
- Has pure, genuine; special
- Hasan good, handsome (given name)
- Hasdemir pure iron
- Hasırcı mat-weaver
- Haspolat choice steel; male name
- Haşim crusher, breaker
- Hatımoğulları sons of Hatım
- Hatipoğlu son of the preacher
- Havutçu maker of camel pack saddles
- Hayat life
- Haydar lion
- Hayırlı auspicious, beneficial
- Hazar the Khazars; the Caspian
- Hazer Caspian (Hazar) or ‘caution’
- Haznedaroğlu son of the treasurer
- Hekimoğlu son of the physician
- Helvacı halva maker or seller
- Helvacıoğlu son of the halva maker
- Heper always brave
- Hepileri always forward
- Hızarcı sawyer
- Hikmet wisdom
- Hocaoğlu son of the teacher (hoca)
- Horasan Khorasan
- Hoşgör tolerant, forbearing
- Hulûsi sincere, pure-hearted
- Hurmacı date seller
- Hülagü the Mongol ruler Hülegü
- Hüner skill, talent
- Hürriyet freedom
- Hüseyin the name Hüseyin (Husayn)
- Hüseyinoğlu son of Hüseyin
The letter H in Turkish surnames
Native Turkish words seldom begin with H; most H-words came in from Arabic and Persian. Hasan, Hüseyin and Halil are Arabic names, hoca ‘teacher’ is Persian, and hacı ‘pilgrim’ goes back to Arabic ḥājj. Even Hakan made a round trip: the Turkic title kağan passed into Arabic and Persian as ḫāqān and came back to Turkish with an h. Surnames such as Hacıoğlu and Hatipoğlu join these loans to the Turkish -oğlu.
The surnames under this letter, in figures
The meanings are spread over 21 categories; the largest are “Patronymic -oğlu surnames” (16), “Words from religious vocabulary” (5) and “Food, market and trade” (4). Borrowed roots are in the majority here: Arabic (33), Persian (10), Greek (1), Armenian (1), Mongolic (1), against 13 Turkic. On average they have 7.0 letters, longer than the dictionary average of 6.3. The longest is Hacıpaşalıoğlu (14 letters), the shortest Han and Has (3). In vowel harmony, names with only back vowels lead (31) over front-vowel names (6); 22 mix the two, usually a sign of a compound or a loan.