Tuna (name) explained

Tuna (pronounced as /tr/) 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

• 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

• 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

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

See also

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