Tuna (name)
Tuna (IPA: [tuˈna]) is a masculine Altaian given name. It means fertile, majestic, flamboyant and young in Oyrot. It is also a unisex Turkish given name and surname that comes from the same root. It was used for Danube River in Ottoman times.
Given name
[edit]- Tuna Aktürk, Turkish civil engineer
- Tuna Kiremitci, Turkish writer
- Tuna Üzümcü, Turkish footballer
- Tuna Scanlan, Samoan/New Zealand boxer of the 1950s and '60s
Surname
[edit]- Cari Tuna, American nonprofit businessperson
- Floriana Tuna, Romanian chemist at the University of Manchester
- Mustafa Tuna (born 1957), Turkish environmental engineer, politician and former mayor of Ankara
- Tamer Tuna (footballer, born 1976), Turkish football player and coach
- Tamer Tuna (footballer, born 1991), Turkish football player
Stage name and other names
[edit]- Tuna (singer), Albanian singer-songwriter
- Tuna (rapper), Israeli rapper
See also
[edit]- "The Big Tuna", nickname of several people
- Tona (name)