Tuna (name)

Tuna () 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. In Turkish, Tuna was a name for the Danube River in Ottoman times.

People

Given name

• Tuna Aktürk, Turkish civil engineer
• Tuna Kiremitci, Turkish writer
• Tuna Üzümcü, Turkish footballer
• Tuna Scanlan, Samoan/New Zealand boxer of the 1950s and '60s
• Tuna Tunca (born 2003), Turkish autistic long-distance swimmer

Surname

• Cari Tuna (born 1985), 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
• Onur Tuna (born 1985), Turkish actor and singer
• Tamer Tuna (footballer, born 1976), Turkish football player and coach
• Tamer Tuna (footballer, born 1991), Turkish football player

Stage name and other names

• Tuna (singer), Albanian singer-songwriter
• Tuna (rapper), Israeli rapper

See also

• "The Big Tuna", nickname of several people
• Tona (name)