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Çağatay

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Çağatay is a Turkish male given name meaning “young horse”. The first name also occurs in Mongolia and other Turkic states. The first name also appears as a family name. The Mongolian variant of the name is Tsagadai.

Name carriers

Historical period
Tsagadai Khan (~1186–1242), Mongol prince

First name

Çağatay Şahan (born 1979), Turkish football referee
Çağatay Ulusoy (* 1990), Turkish model and actor
Çağatay Vatan (* 1997), Turkish footballer
Çağatay Yılmaz (born 2000), Turkish footballer

Family name
Cafer Çağatay (1899–1991), Turkish football player and official, pharmacist and musician
Mustafa Çağatay (1937–1989), Cypriot politician

Other
Chagatai-Khanat was a Central Asian state.
The Chagatean language (Turkish Çağatayca) was an Eastern Turkish literary language.

Individual evidence

Male first name
Family name
Turkish personal name