Given name & surname

Selçuk

Selçuk is a unisex given name from Ottoman Turkish. It is used in Turkish.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Selçuk comes from Ottoman Turkish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Ottoman Turkish سلچوق (Selçuk).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Selçuk’s family of names

In Turkish usage, Selçuk shares a linguistic root with the English form SELJUK.

Walk Selçuk’s family in the name graph

SelçukSelcukSeljuk

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Selçuk, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Turkish

Celik

Celik is a surname from Turkish.

No U.S. birth series

40% boys · 60% girls

Turkish

Čelebić

Čelebić is a surname from Ottoman Turkish. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.

No U.S. birth series

—

Turkish

Celâl

Celâl is a given name from Ottoman Turkish. It is used in Turkish.

No U.S. birth series

—

Serbo-Croatian

Solak

“left-handed”

No U.S. birth series

—

Turkish

Şeref

Şeref is a given name from Ottoman Turkish. It is used in Turkish.

No U.S. birth series

—

Turkish

Cebeci

Cebeci is a surname from Turkish. It is used in Cebuano.

No U.S. birth series

—

Turkish

Çekrezi

Çekrezi is a surname from Turkish. It is used in Albanian.

No U.S. birth series

—

Persian

Şeyda

“enamored”

No U.S. birth series

50% boys · 50% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Selçuk’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

A brother for Selçuk

A sister for Selçuk