Does anyon know any Turkish names that are also american?

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Dellarovere

If I were your mom I wouldn't hesitate to give the baby any name which would remind me of my country of origin. Why should the name be both english and turkish? Just because the majority of americans are of english origin? Just keep in mind that in US there's a lot of names of italian origin too, so there's no problem for a genuine turkish name...

P.S. Do you think that the name of the U.S. Minister of foreign affairs is very "english"?

HOTTÃ¼rk

Turkish versions of the "global" boy names:

Yusuf > Joseph
Mikail > Michael
Yakup > Jacob
Adem > Adam
Davut > David
BÃ¼nyamin > Benjamin
Ä°skender > Alexander
Deniz > Dennis
Can > John

Deniz is my fav becoz its my name!!!

Good luck...

YabanciKiz

Good ideas:
Deniz
Arman
Eren
Danyal
Adem
Erol
Ozgur
Kurt (but be careful, while in Turkish this means "wolf"--a very important symbol in Turkish folklore--it also translates to "worm".)

Really bad ideas:
Ufuk
Tuna
****
Kirac
Anil
Oral
Anything ending in -ge

I would actually also advise against "Can", or anything starting with a "c". That "j" sound is going to trump most Americans, and his life will be a living hell anytime a teacher takes roll call, or the second someone realizes that "can" is a slang word for "toilet" or "getting fired".

You could also give him an American first name and a Turkish middle name. That would work out beautifully, as Turks usually go by their middle names.

nelaq

Timucin is a nice Turkish name and you can call Tim in English.

Earthling

Danyel or Danyal for Daniel

anlarm

Some Biblical names I guess. for example:
Adem / Adam
Ibrahim / Abraham
Musa / Moses
Davut / David
Ilyas / Elias
Yunus / Jonas (pronounced 'unous')

rebel

how about ''akin'', means rush in turkish you know what it means in english.

hanibal

Alp, can be

Here is baby names dictionary for more choice.

http://www.yorumcu.com/baby/dict.asp

http://www.bebek-isimleri.gen.tr/

http://www.sevginehri.net/bebekisimleri.asp

G M

We named our daughter Eren for the same reasons. It's called like ERIN or aaron. It means saint, honesty. It originally is a boy name but we didn't care since nobody in US would know it :)

sultan.murat

Adem (adam)
Ibrahim (abraham)
Harun (aaron)
Watch out they are spelled a bit differently.
Make sure you donÂ´t call him Tuna cause they will ridicule him (Tuna as in Fish)

stressedoutcow

Aydin or Dilhan - they are my favourite Turkish names

Fenerli

Eren = Aaron
Deniz = Dennis
Yakub = Jacob
Adam = Adem
Can = John

Slick Rick

My son will be named Arin in a few weeks. It pronounced the same as Aaron, or very similar
stay away from Afuk and Kunta ,

Charmed

Maybe Kenan, Ä° had an american friend with that name, it's also a name in Turkish .

MORTÄ°CÄ°A

-Alp
- Harun( Aron / Haroun)
- Atila
- Barbaross

Cant think of anymore :(

you can go for also mythological names such as Atlas , Paris, Achil etc.

genÃ§ tÃ¼rk

venus
melissa (Damn these are girlie names)
Tarkan?
Tayfun :P
Attila

victory

I don't know if these help...

Deniz: (It means sea in Turkish, it sounds like Denis)
Can: (It means life but it isn't pronounced as in English it sounds like John)

tramp

what about Atilla or Attila or Cengiz like Cengiz Han and or Sami (from sami race ) actually most of the names arab originated that others mentioned like ilyas,yakup.davut are prophet names but Can, Attila,Deniz,Hakan,Kaan,BoÄŸaÃ§,Alp Alptekin,Cagatay and Cengiz are just beatiful pure TÃ¼rkÃ§e names for your lovely brother.But my favourite is Timur and ohh what about Kurt?? it means wolf and it is so important in TÃ¼rk history.According to a myth TÃ¼rks fighted with a clan and most of them are killed and the rest of them escaped to the mountain(They also say TÃ¼rk population ended but the mother wolf gave a birth without a male wolf) and they settled down to the otherside of the mountain that no man can live there cos it was too high and they were surrounded by the mountains from 4 sides but they were used to the cold so they managed to live and by the time their population has increased and they had to find somewhere else that they and their animals can find enough food to survive but there was no way to get out there than a grey wolf showed them the way and TÃ¼rks were able to go anywhere of the world.Grey wolf is a big myth and i do believe some parts of it.Because there are found carves in wolf shape in Mongolia.Of course i didnt go there but i saw the carves on rocks in Tv and i know TÃ¼rks ability to tame and before naming the baby search the name again cos it may be arab .be aware of this.

Pala Remzi

Turco-American families prefer CAN (djanne) as a name
as this one is pronounced quite like "John"

So the boy would go happily with his name among American firends in USA or T7urkish friends in Turkey all the same

stressed erica

alex

Qu'est ce que tu pense?

If it's a boy then name it Ibrahim, because it sounds like the American, Abraham.

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