Erdal (Turkish name)
Erdal is a Turkish male given name , which also occurs as a family name .
meaning
In the Turkish language, Erdal means something like "a young person". The name is composed of “he” (the brave, fit man) and “dal” (the branch, the sprout from a trunk, the rice).
Name bearer
First name
- Erdal Akpınar (* 1938), Turkish football player
- Erdal Arıkan (* 1958), Turkish computer scientist
- Erdal Celik (* 1988), German football player of Turkish origin
- Erdal Ceylanoğlu (* 1945), Turkish general
- Erdal Eren (1964–1980), Turkish student and execution victim
- Erdal Erzincan (* 1971), Turkish musician
- Erdal Güneş (* 1982), Turkish soccer player
- Erdal İnönü (1926–2007), Turkish physicist and politician
- Erdal Keser (* 1961), Turkish soccer player and coach
- Erdal Kılıçaslan (* 1984), German-Turkish soccer player
- Erdal Merdan (1949–2010), German-Turkish author, director and actor
- Erdal Öz (1935–2006), Turkish writer and publisher
- Erdal Öztürk (* 1996), German-Turkish soccer player
- Erdal Pekdemir (* 1992), Turkish soccer player
- Erdal Rakip (* 1996), Swedish football player of Turkish origin
- Erdal Sezek (* 1980), Turkish soccer player
- Erdal Tuncer (* 1942), Turkish football player
- Erdal Yıldız (* 1966), German-Kurdish actor
family name
- Fehriye Erdal (* 1977), Kurdish-Turkish activist
- Yasin Erdal (* 1986), Turkish-Dutch soccer player
- Ziya Erdal (* 1988), Turkish soccer player
stage name
- Erdal Çelik ( Azad Çelik; * 1987), German actor of Turkish-Kurdish descent
pseudonym
- Bahoz Erdal (* 19 **), Kurdish PKK member
Erdal as a brand name
The brand name for the well-known shoe care product Erdal is not derived from the Turkish name, but from the Mainz dialect pronunciation of the family name Erthal . Likewise, the place names of the same name in Norway and the Norwegian family name Erdal have nothing to do with this name.