Question on a Bulgarian name

[Kjetil Rå Hauge]

>There seem to be two possible constructions: Özcan (as pointed out by Kjetil
>Rå Hauge) or Yozcan - 'the one with real soul' or 'the one with a simple
>soul (???)'. Perhaps one of the two names really exists in Turkish, but from
>a Bulgarian point of view it is impossible to decide. I'd prefer the first
>one, as Öz- can be met in other Turkish names as well. If you really want to
>know, you'd better ask a specialist for Turkish onomastics.
>

A search for "Özcan" at Google yields more than 65.000 hits. A quick
check of the first ten pages of them shows that these are all part of
some Turkish name, either surname (most frequent) or first name.
"Yozcan" yields five to six hits, and all of them seem to be a user
name for someone really named Özcan (remember, non-ASCII characters
like "Ö" usually don't work in user names). If Paul B. Gallagher's
search for the Cyrillic "jozdzhan" was anywhere like mine, the 8 to
16 hits were also part of the (completely Turkish) name of some
Turkish-speaking citizen of Bulgaria. My conclusion is that this
leans heavily towards the "Özcan" etymology.
--
-- Kjetil Rå Hauge, U. of Oslo. Phone +47/22856710, fax +47/22854140
-- (this msg sent from home, +47/67148424, fax +1/5084372444)

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