Surname index·Letter
Surnames beginning with J
Only 1 surname begins with J, 0.0% 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
- 1
- in this index
- In the national top 30
- 0
- ADNKS 2025
1 surname in Turkish alphabetical order
- Jöntürk Young Turk
The letter J in Turkish surnames
J, the sound [ʒ] as in French jour, is the rarest letter at the start of a Turkish word. No native word begins with it; J-words are loans from Persian (jale ‘dew’) or French (jandarma, jüri, jeton). Turkish surnames beginning with J are therefore exceptional. The English j sound [dʒ] is usually written c in Turkish: jeep becomes cip.
The surnames under this letter, in figures
All of them share one primary category: “Homeland, nation and ideals”.