Surname index·Letter
Surnames beginning with Ü
Only 42 surnames begin with Ü, 1.2% 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
- 42
- in this index
- In the national top 30
- 0
- ADNKS 2025
42 surnames in Turkish alphabetical order
- Üçer three each
- Üçok three arrows; a wing of the Oghuz
- Üçtaş three stones
- Üçüncü third
- Ülgen sky god of Altai myth
- Ülger the Pleiades; fruit down
- Ülke country, land
- Ülker the Pleiades
- Ülkü ideal, high goal
- Ülkümen devoted to an ideal
- Ümit hope
- Ün fame, renown
- Ünal win fame
- Ünaldı he gained fame
- Ünalmış one who has won fame
- Ünaydın renowned and enlightened
- Ünder gatherer of renown
- Ünel renowned among the people
- Üner renowned man
- Üngör may you win fame
- Ünlü famous, renowned
- Ünlüer renowned man, famed hero
- Ünlütürk famous Turk
- Ünsal “spread your fame”
- Ünsalan spreading fame
- Ünüvar renowned, “has fame”
- Ünver giver of renown; “give fame”
- Ürgüplü from Ürgüp
- Ürkmez one who does not shy, fearless
- Ürkmezgil the Ürkmez family; fearless
- Ürün produce, harvest, yield
- Üstel exalted land, superior people
- Üstün superior, excellent
- Üstündağ loftiest mountain
- Üstünel superior hand; superior land
- Üstüner outstanding man
- Üstünkaya towering rock
- Üstünsoy distinguished lineage
- Üstüntaş superior stone
- Üzülmez one who does not grieve
- Üzüm grape
- Üzümcü grape grower or seller
The letter Ü in Turkish surnames
Ü is the front rounded close vowel [y]. Native words that begin with it include ün ‘fame’, üç ‘three’, ülkü ‘ideal’ and üstün ‘superior’, which give names such as Ünal, Ünlü, Ülkü and Üstün. Inside names, ü mostly arrives through vowel harmony or compounding: Öztürk, Gürbüz, Aygün. German writes the sound ue, so Ünal can appear as “Uenal”; typing without Turkish characters simply drops the dots, giving “Unal”.
The surnames under this letter, in figures
One category stands out by meaning: “Fortune, blessing and fame”, with 13 surnames, ahead of “Mountains, rocks and stones” (4). Turkic roots dominate (39 surnames, 95.1%); the rest come from Mongolic (1), Persian (1). On average they have 5.7 letters, shorter than the dictionary average of 6.3. The longest are Ürkmezgil and Üstünkaya (9 letters), the shortest Ün (2). In vowel harmony, names with only front vowels lead (29) over back-vowel names (0); 13 mix the two, usually a sign of a compound or a loan.