Cypriot Name Generator
Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot names from Cyprus
Browse 500 Cypriot names from both of the island's naming traditions: Greek Cypriot names such as Panayiotis, Androulla, Hadjigeorgiou and Kyriacos Flourentzou, and Turkish Cypriot names such as Hüseyin, Emete and Ayşe Kıbrıslı.
About Cypriot names
Names from Cyprus come from two naming traditions, Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot, and both appear in this list. Greek Cypriot first names are mostly saints' names, and saints tied to the island are well represented: Varnavas (Barnabas), Neophytos, Mamas, Epiphanios and Spyridon. Everyday speech turns them into pet forms: Christakis, Yiannakis and Michalakis for men, Pambos or Bambos for Charalambos, and the Cypriot ending -oulla for women, as in Androulla, Maroulla and Stavroulla.
Most Greek Cypriot surnames began as a father's first name in the genitive case, which is why so many end in -ou: Georgiou is "of Georgios" and Ioannou "of Ioannis". The prefix Hadji- marks a forefather who made the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, as in Hadjigeorgiou. Other families carry the patronymic ending -ides, or a surname from a village or a trade, such as Lefkaritis for a family from Lefkara or Mylonas for a miller. The list keeps the usual Cypriot spellings in Latin letters: Yiannis, Kyriacos and Photis where a mainland Greek list writes Giannis, Kyriakos and Fotis.
Turkish Cypriot first names are those of the wider Turkish-speaking world, such as Mehmet, Hüseyin, Ayşe and Emine, and some, such as Emete, Pembe and Dudu, are especially at home on the island. Full names pair a first name and a surname from the same tradition.
How to choose Cypriot names
- Keep a full name inside one tradition: a Greek Cypriot first name with a Greek Cypriot surname, a Turkish Cypriot first name with a Turkish Cypriot surname. The full names on the list are built that way.
- For an older or rural character pick a pet form or a saint's name tied to the island, such as Pambos, Koullis, Maroulla or Varnavas. For a younger one, Marios, Stelios, Andri or Nayia fit better.
- A surname in -ou is already a genitive, so men and women of a family share it, as in Androulla Lambrianou. A family called Lefkaritis or Michaelides may write the surname of its women with a different ending.
- Spellings vary from family to family. Kyriacou and Kyriakou, Hadjigeorgiou and Hatzigeorgiou, Yiannis and Giannis are the same names, so pick one system and keep it through a project.
- Type Turkish Cypriot names with their own letters where you can. The letters ş, ç, ğ, ı, ö and ü change the sound of a name such as Kıbrıslı or Hasipoğlu.
Frequently asked questions
Are these real Cypriot names?
The first names and surnames are ones used in Cyprus, from Andreas, Chrystalla and Georgiou to Mehmet, Emine and Kıbrıslı. Full names such as Savvas Yerolemou or Zehra Gazioğlu are combinations of a first name and a surname, so a match with a real person is chance. The list has not been checked by native speakers of either language.
Why do so many Cypriot surnames end in -ou?
The ending is the Greek genitive case, so a surname in -ou means "of" a father or forefather: Georgiou, Ioannou, Christodoulou. Names such as Charalambous, Sophocleous and Xenophontos are genitives too, with the endings those first names take. Because the form is already a genitive, the women and men of a family use it unchanged.
What does Hadji mean at the start of a surname?
It marks a forefather who made a pilgrimage, for Greek Cypriots to the Holy Land, and was known by that title afterwards. Hadjigeorgiou, Hadjiloizou and Hadjipavlou are surnames of this kind. Turkish has the same title as hacı, for the pilgrimage to Mecca.
Does the list include Turkish Cypriot names?
Yes. About a fifth of the list is Turkish Cypriot: first names such as Hüseyin, Derviş, Ayşe and Emete, surnames such as Kıbrıslı and Hasipoğlu, and full names that pair them. The rest is Greek Cypriot, and the full names never mix the two traditions.
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All 500 Cypriot names
A: 37 names
- Adalı
- Agrotis
- Ahmet
- Ahmet Hakeri
- Akıncı
- Amcaoğlu
- Anastasia Yiannakou
- Andreas
- Andreas Hadjiloizou
- Andreas Kythreotis
- Andri
- Andri Agathocleous
- Andri Symeou
- Androulla
- Androulla Hadjikyriacou
- Androulla Lambrianou
- Angastiniotis
- Annou
- Anthoulla
- Anthoulla Solomou
- Antonakis
- Antonakis Hadjipavlou
- Antonia Leonidou
- Antoniades
- Antonis
- Aristidou
- Aristotelous
- Atakol
- Ataoğlu
- Athienitis
- Atun
- Avgousta
- Avgousta Chrysostomou
- Avgousti
- Ayşe
- Ayşe Kıbrıslı
- Azgın
B: 3 names
- Bambos
- Bambos Hadjittofi
- Berberoğlu
C: 38 names
- Çağlayan
- Çakıcı
- Cemaliye
- Cemaliye Şahali
- Charalambides
- Charalambos
- Charalambos Liasi
- Charalambos Tsielepis
- Charalambous
- Charoulla
- Charoulla Louca
- Christakis
- Christakis Evangelou
- Christakis Lysiotis
- Christina Timotheou
- Christodoulos
- Christodoulou
- Christofi
- Christofides
- Christofis
- Christoforos
- Christos Papamichael
- Chryso
- Chryso Miltiadous
- Chrystalla
- Chrystalla Hadjidemetriou
- Chrystalla Xenophontos
- Chrystalleni
- Chrystalleni Aristotelous
- Cleanthous
- Constantia
- Constantia Evagorou
- Constantinides
- Constantinou
- Costakis
- Costakis Kakoullis
- Costakis Socratous
- Costas
D: 17 names
- Demetra
- Demetriades
- Demetriou
- Demetris
- Demetris Katsouris
- Denktaş
- Derviş
- Despinou
- Despo
- Despo Neocleous
- Despo Theophanous
- Doros
- Doros Petrides
- Drousiotis
- Dudu
- Dudu Manyera
- Durduran
E: 26 names
- Efthyvoulou
- Ekenoğlu
- Eleftheria
- Elena Erotokritou
- Elengou
- Eleni Aristodemou
- Eliades
- Ellada
- Ellada Prodromou
- Elpida
- Elpida Gavriel
- Emete
- Emete Ruso
- Emine
- Emine Atakol
- Epiphanios
- Eroğlu
- Erol
- Erol Durduran
- Ersin
- Ertan
- Ertan Ataoğlu
- Evagoras
- Evagoras Galatariotis
- Evanthia
- Evanthia Paraskeva
F: 9 names
- Fatma
- Fatma Mapolar
- Fazıl
- Fezile
- Fezile Necatigil
- Flourentzou
- Frangoudis
- Froso
- Froso Menelaou
G: 9 names
- Galatariotis
- Gazioğlu
- Georgia Epiphaniou
- Georgiades
- Georgiou
- Glafkos
- Gönül
- Gönül Töre
- Güney
H: 35 names
- Hadjiantonis
- Hadjicostas
- Hadjicostis
- Hadjidemetriou
- Hadjigeorgiou
- Hadjikyriacou
- Hadjiloizou
- Hadjimichael
- Hadjinicolaou
- Hadjioannou
- Hadjipanayi
- Hadjipavlou
- Hadjipieris
- Hadjisavvas
- Hadjistephanou
- Hadjittofi
- Hadjivassiliou
- Hadjiyiannis
- Hakeri
- Halil
- Halil Manyera
- Hambis
- Hasan
- Hasan Gazioğlu
- Hasan Kıbrıslı
- Hasipoğlu
- Hatice
- Hatice Kanatlı
- Havva
- Havva Ekenoğlu
- Heracleous
- Huriye
- Hüseyin
- Hüseyin Atakol
- Hüseyin Mapolar
I: 10 names
- Iacovides
- Iacovos
- Iacovos Zachariades
- Iacovou
- İbrahim
- İbrahim Ekenoğlu
- Ioanna Damianou
- Ioannides
- Ioannou
- Irini Matheou
K: 38 names
- Kadriye
- Kaimakliotis
- Kakoullis
- Kallis
- Kanatlı
- Karaolis
- Karpasitis
- Kaşif
- Katsouris
- Kemal
- Kemal Necatigil
- Kıbrıslı
- Kikis
- Kokkinos
- Kokos
- Kokos Yiakoumi
- Konuk
- Koulla
- Koullis
- Koullis Varnava
- Koumi
- Koureas
- Koutsoftas
- Küçük
- Kudret
- Kutlay
- Kyprianos
- Kyprianou
- Kypros
- Kypros Lapithis
- Kyriacos
- Kyriacos Flourentzou
- Kyriacos Theodoulou
- Kyriacou
- Kyriaki
- Kyriaki Avraam
- Kyriakides
- Kythreotis
L: 22 names
- Lakis
- Lakis Psaras
- Lakis Toumazou
- Lambrianou
- Lapithis
- Lazaros
- Lazarou
- Lefkaritis
- Lellos
- Lellos Poyiadjis
- Lenia
- Lenia Onisiforou
- Liasi
- Loizides
- Loizos
- Loizos Tornaritis
- Loizou
- Louca
- Loucas
- Loucas Frangoudis
- Loulla
- Lysiotis
M: 44 names
- Mamas
- Mamas Kokkinos
- Manyera
- Mapolar
- Marcos
- Marcos Kallis
- Marcou
- Maria Kyprianou
- Marikkou
- Marilena
- Marina Leontiou
- Marios
- Marios Tsangaris
- Markides
- Maroulla
- Maroulla Photiou
- Maroulla Sergiou
- Mavronicolas
- Mehmet
- Mehmet Hasipoğlu
- Mehmet Kanatlı
- Melpo
- Melpo Herodotou
- Meryem
- Meryem Berberoğlu
- Mesaritis
- Michael
- Michaelides
- Michalakis
- Michalakis Tylliros
- Michalakis Zannettou
- Michalis
- Michalis Shiakallis
- Milia
- Milia Telemachou
- Militsa
- Mina
- Mustafa
- Mustafa Şahali
- Mylonas
- Myria
- Myria Stephanou
- Myrofora
- Myrofora Sophocleous
N: 24 names
- Naciye
- Nadir
- Nasia
- Nasia Spyrou
- Nayia
- Nayia Gregoriou
- Nearchou
- Necati
- Necatigil
- Neocleous
- Neophytos
- Neophytos Aristidou
- Neophytos Mesaritis
- Neophytou
- Nicola
- Nicolaides
- Nicolaou
- Nicos
- Nicos Angastiniotis
- Niki
- Niki Dionysiou
- Nitsa
- Nitsa Artemiou
- Niyazi
O: 9 names
- Oktay
- Oktay Örek
- Onisiforos
- Onisiforos Petrou
- Örek
- Orphanides
- Osman
- Osman Azgın
- Özker
P: 47 names
- Pambos
- Pambos Karpasitis
- Pambos Nearchou
- Panayiota
- Panayiota Lazarou
- Panayiota Themistocleous
- Panayiotis
- Panayiotis Koumi
- Panayiotis Zambas
- Panayiotou
- Panicos
- Panicos Vrahimis
- Panteli
- Pantelis
- Pantelitsa
- Pantelitsa Economou
- Papacostas
- Paphitis
- Paraskevou
- Patsalos
- Pavlides
- Pavlos Akritas
- Pavlou
- Pelekanos
- Pembe
- Pembe Azgın
- Perdikis
- Pericleous
- Philippou
- Phivos
- Phivos Efthyvoulou
- Photini
- Photiou
- Photis
- Photis Pantelides
- Phylactou
- Pieri
- Pierides
- Pieris
- Pilakoutas
- Pissarides
- Pitsillides
- Pittas
- Polys
- Polys Zavros
- Poyiadjis
- Psaras
R: 15 names
- Ramadan
- Ramadan Berberoğlu
- Rauf
- Raziye
- Raziye Ataoğlu
- Renos
- Renos Skordis
- Revecca
- Revecca Tryphonos
- Rikkos
- Rikkos Perdikis
- Rodothea
- Rodothea Zachariou
- Roulla
- Ruso
S: 41 names
- Sabiha
- Şahali
- Salih
- Salih Ruso
- Savva
- Savvas
- Savvas Pelekanos
- Savvas Yerolemou
- Savvides
- Savvoulla
- Serdar
- Sergiou
- Şerife
- Şerife Amcaoğlu
- Sevgül
- Sevgül Hakeri
- Shiakallis
- Skevi
- Skevi Pericleous
- Skevi Zenonos
- Skevoulla
- Skordis
- Socratous
- Solomou
- Sophocleous
- Sotiris
- Sotiris Koutsoftas
- Sotiroulla
- Sotiroulla Mina
- Soulla
- Soyer
- Spyridon
- Stalo
- Stalo Heracleous
- Stalo Yiangou
- Stavroulla
- Stavroulla Nicola
- Stelios
- Stelios Zambartas
- Styliani
- Styliani Efstathiou
T: 34 names
- Tahsin
- Tahsin Konuk
- Takis
- Takis Evripidou
- Takis Kaimakliotis
- Talat
- Tallou
- Tasoulla
- Tasoulla Marcou
- Tassos
- Tassos Papacostas
- Tatar
- Tefkros
- Tefkros Stavrides
- Thekla
- Thekla Polydorou
- Themistocleous
- Theocharous
- Theodorou
- Theodoulou
- Theognosia
- Theognosia Procopiou
- Theophanous
- Thoma
- Tofis
- Tofis Pieri
- Töre
- Tornaritis
- Toulla
- Tsangaris
- Tsielepis
- Turgut
- Turgut Çakıcı
- Tylliros
U: 1 name
- Uludağ
V: 8 names
- Varnava
- Varnavas
- Varnavas Hadjisavvas
- Vassiliki
- Vassiliou
- Vassos
- Violaris
- Vrahimis
X: 3 names
- Xenia
- Xenia Achilleos
- Xenophontos
Y: 18 names
- Yerolemou
- Yiakoumi
- Yiallouros
- Yiangos
- Yiangos Koureas
- Yiannakis
- Yiannakis Athienitis
- Yiannakis Polyviou
- Yiannis
- Yiannis Drousiotis
- Yiannoulla
- Yiannoulla Iacovou
- Yiasoumis
- Yiasoumis Thoma
- Yiorgos
- Yiorgos Violaris
- Yiota
- Yiota Charitou