Surname index·Letter
Surnames beginning with T
With 332 surnames, T is the fourth most frequent initial in this dictionary (6.9% 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
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332 surnames in Turkish alphabetical order
- Tabak tanner; plate
- Tabanca pistol
- Tabanlıoğlu son of Tabanlı
- Tabur battalion
- Taç crown
- Taçyıldız crown + star
- Tagay maternal uncle (old form)
- Tağ mountain
- Taha name of a Qur'anic sura
- Tahaoğlu son of Taha
- Tahincioğlu son of the tahini maker
- Tahir pure, clean (given name)
- Tahtacı board cutter, timber dealer
- Talan plunder, raid
- Talaş sawdust, shavings
- Talat beauty, countenance; rising
- Talay sea, ocean
- Tali fortune, luck
- Talu chosen, select
- Tamer complete man; male name
- Tan dawn
- Tandoğan born at dawn
- Taner man of the dawn
- Taneri man of the dawn
- Tangöze spring of dawn
- Tanık witness
- Tanış acquaintance, familiar
- Tank tank
- Tankurt wolf of the dawn
- Tankut blessed dawn; the Tangut name
- Tanlar dawns
- Tanpınar spring of dawn
- Tanrıbilir God knows
- Tanrıkulu servant of God
- Tanrıöğen praising God
- Tanrıöver one who praises God
- Tanrıseven God-loving
- Tanrısevsin ‘may God love him’
- Tanrıverdi “God gave”
- Tanrıyar friend of God
- Tansel flood of dawn; of the dawn
- Tansu dawn water
- Tanyalçın sheer cliff at dawn
- Tanyel dawn wind
- Tanyeli dawn breeze
- Tanyeri dawn, daybreak
- Tanyıldız morning star (Venus)
- Tanyıldızı morning star (Venus)
- Tanyolaç open the way to dawn
- Tanzer golden dawn
- Tarakçı comb maker or seller
- Taraklı district in Sakarya; crested
- Tarçın cinnamon
- Targan tarkhan, a noble title
- Tarhan old Turkic title
- Tarım agriculture, farming
- Tarkan old Turkic noble title
- Tarlabaşı head of the field; Istanbul quarter
- Tarlacı field worker
- Tarlan a bird of prey
- Taş stone
- Taşar overflowing, exuberant
- Taşbulak stone spring
- Taşçı stonemason, quarryman
- Taşçıer stonecutter man
- Taşçıoğlu son of the stonemason
- Taşdan made of stone
- Taşdelen stone-piercer
- Taşdeler stone-piercer
- Taşdemir firm as stone and iron
- Taşdoğan stone falcon; born firm as stone
- Taşdöğen stone-pounder
- Taşer stone-hard hero
- Taşkan of stone-hard stock
- Taşkent Tashkent; stone town
- Taşkesenlioğlu son of the one from Taşkesen
- Taşkın overflowing, exuberant
- Taşkıran stone-breaker; saxifrage
- Taşköprü stone bridge; a town in Kastamonu
- Taşlı stony, rocky
- Taşoğlu son of Taş (“stone”)
- Taşova stony plain; district in Amasya
- Taşpınar spring in the rock
- Taştan made of stone, stone-firm
- Taştekin stone-firm prince
- Taşyürek heart of stone, undaunted
- Tatar historical tribal name; Ottoman courier
- Tataroğlu son of Tatar
- Tatlı sweet, pleasant
- Tatlıcı confectioner, sweet-maker
- Tatlıoğlu son of Tatlı (the sweet one)
- Tatlıses sweet-voiced
- Tatlıtuğ fair standard
- Tavgaç Old Turkic name for China
- Taviloğlu son of the tall one
- Tavukçu poultry keeper, poulterer
- Tavukçuoğlu son of the poulterer
- Tayfur Arabic man’s name; small bird
- Taylan tall and graceful
- Tayyar flying, swift
- Tazegül fresh rose
- Teber axe, crescent axe
- Tek single, unique, one and only
- Tekbilek single wrist
- Tekdal single branch
- Tekdemir unmatched iron
- Teke billy goat
- Tekeli with goats; an old Turkish name
- Tekelioğlu son of Tekeli
- Teker wheel
- Tekgül single rose
- Tekin prince (Old Turkic tegin)
- Tekinalp heroic prince
- Tekinay prince + moon
- Tekinoktay from the names Tekin and Oktay
- Tekir tabby; red mullet
- Tekmanlı from Tekman (Erzurum)
- Tektaş single stone
- Telek quill feather
- Telli adorned with tinsel
- Tellioğlu son of Telli (“adorned”)
- Tema theme
- Temel foundation, basis
- Temelkuran founder, one who lays foundations
- Temelli well-founded, lasting
- Temeltaş foundation stone
- Temiz clean, honest
- Temizel clean hand; honest
- Temizer clean, honest man
- Temizkan of pure blood
- Temur iron (old form)
- Tenger sky, heaven
- Teoman the Xiongnu ruler Teoman; chief
- Tepe hill, summit
- Tepecik little hill
- Tepeli of the hills; crested
- Tercan Tercan, a district of Erzincan; fresh soul
- Terek shelf; tree, poplar
- Terim noble person (old title); term
- Terzi tailor
- Terzioğlu son of the tailor
- Tetik alert, quick, vigilant
- Tetikel alert + people
- Tevfik divine help, success
- Tez quick, swift
- Tezcan quick-spirited, lively
- Tezcaner lively, quick-spirited man
- Tezel quick-handed
- Tezer quickly maturing
- Tezgel come quickly
- Tığ crochet hook; formerly sword
- Tınaz heap of threshed grain
- Tınmaz unperturbed, unshaken
- Tıraş shave, haircut
- Tırpan scythe
- Tırpancı mower with a scythe
- Tibet Tibet (the region)
- Tiğin prince (Old Turkic title)
- Tilbe frenzied; alert
- Tilki fox; shrewd person
- Tilmaç interpreter
- Timuçin blacksmith; Genghis Khan’s birth name
- Timur iron; the name of the ruler Timur
- Timuroğlu son of Timur
- Tin soul, spirit
- Tiritoğlu son of Tirit (a bread dish)
The letter T in Turkish surnames
The Old Turkic initial t often became d in Turkish (see D), but many words kept it: taş ‘stone’, toprak ‘earth’, tan ‘dawn’, tekin from the Old Turkic title tegin ‘prince’, and the name Türk itself. The surnames Taş, Toprak, Tekin and Türkmen continue them, and taş and türk are frequent second elements: Karataş, Göktaş, Öztürk, Aktürk. A t or a d can therefore separate names that share a root, as in Timur and Demir.
The surnames under this letter, in figures
The meanings are spread over 45 categories; the largest are “Built from Turkic name elements” (32), “Virtue and integrity” (19) and “Mountains, rocks and stones” (17). Turkic roots dominate (253 surnames, 78.3%); the rest come from Persian (22), Arabic (16), Greek (10), Mongolic (9), other languages (8), French (3), Armenian (2). On average they have 6.4 letters, close to the dictionary average of 6.6. The longest is Taşkesenlioğlu (14 letters), the shortest Taç, Tağ and Tan and others (3). In vowel harmony, names with only back vowels lead (166) over front-vowel names (76); 90 mix the two, usually a sign of a compound or a loan.