Oğuz Kağan name meaning

What does Oğuz Kağan mean?

• Name

  Oğuz

  Name of the historical Oghuz and their epic ancestor

• Name

  Kağan

  Supreme ruler, khagan

Both names are Old Turkic in origin and have two syllables each. The full name belongs to the central hero of the Oghuz Khagan epic.

How popular is Oğuz Kağan?

Official figures: TÜİK newborn name lists (2018–2025, the top 30 for Türkiye and each of the 81 provinces every year) and the most common names in the population.

Province lists

49provinces

Source: TurkStat (TÜİK), Address-Based Population Registration System. The lists cover the top 30 names per year, sex and province; no official counts are published for less common names. All statistics →

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