Meaning & origin
What it means
Yildirim goes back to Turkish Yıldırım, meaning “lightning.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Yildirim’s family of names
In English usage, Yildirim as a surname was borrowed from the Turkish form Yıldırım.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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