Celik Family History

Turkish (Çelik): from çelik ‘steel’ applied as an ornamental name, a nickname for a very strong man or a metonymic occupational name. This is the fifth most frequent surname in Turkey.

Bosniak Croatian and Serbian (Čelik): nickname or metonymic occupational name from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian čelik ‘steel’, a word of Turkish origin (see above).

Slovenian (Čelik): topographic name derived from čelo ‘forehead’ in the sense ‘slope right below the peak of a hill resembling human forehead’ or an old habitational name for someone from a place Čelo named with this word.