Personal Names in Modern Turkey

12/29/2017
by   Amaç Herdağdelen, et al.
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We analyzed the most common 5000 male and 5000 female Turkish names based on their etymological, morphological, and semantic attributes. The name statistics are based on all Turkish citizens who were alive in 2014 and they cover 90 all population. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the most comprehensive data-driven analysis of Turkish personal names. Female names have a greater diversity than male names (e.g., top 15 male names cover 25 male population, whereas top 28 female names cover 25 population). Despite their diversity, female names exhibit predictable patterns. For example, certain roots such as gül and nar (rose and pomegranate/red, respectively) are used to generate hundreds of unique female names. Turkish personal names have their origins mainly in Arabic, followed by Turkish and Persian. We computed overall frequencies of names according to broad semantic themes that were identified in previous studies. We found that foreign-origin names such as olga and khaled, pastoral names such as yağmur and deniz (rain and sea, respectively), and names based on fruits and plants such as filiz and menekşe (sprout and violet, respectively) are more frequently observed among females. Among males, names based on animals such as arslan and yunus (lion and dolphin, respectively) and names based on famous and/or historical figures such as mustafa kemal and oğuz kağan (founder of the Turkish Republic and the founder of the Turks in Turkish mythology, respectively) are observed more frequently.

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