National ranking·2018–2025
TÜİK · ADNKS 2018–2025The most common surnames in Türkiye, year by year
Yılmaz has been first in every year from 2018 to 2025. Every top-ten surname grew over this period; the fastest was Demir (6.9%), the slowest Öztürk (3.6%). The population grew 5.0% in the same period.1,2
How have the top 10 changed since 2018?
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yılmaz | 1,134,443 | 1,144,894 | 1,152,872 | 1,160,248 | 1,167,108 | 1,171,014 | 1,174,516 | 1,177,896 |
| Kaya | 847,737 | 858,398 | 866,547 | 875,113 | 883,067 | 888,828 | 894,360 | 899,722 |
| Demir | 820,156 | 831,095 | 840,270 | 849,475 | 858,092 | 864,643 | 871,107 | 876,934 |
| Çelik | 680,558 | 688,604 | 695,044 | 701,315 | 706,814 | 710,598 | 714,184 | 717,655 |
| Yıldız | 660,780 | 668,478 | 674,918 | 680,948 | 686,329 | 690,153 | 693,634 | 697,080 |
| Şahin | 660,634 | 667,161 | 672,026 | 676,707 | 680,655 | 683,206 | 685,727 | 688,214 |
| Yıldırım | 636,738 | 643,571 | 648,965 | 654,066 | 658,631 | 661,503 | 664,229 | 666,723 |
| Öztürk | 566,330 | 571,404 | 575,418 | 578,745 | 581,862 | 583,451 | 585,053 | 586,831 |
| Aydın | 558,089 | 563,570 | 567,785 | 571,791 | 575,232 | 577,350 | 579,161 | 581,387 |
| Özdemir | 534,623 | 539,745 | 543,564 | 547,285 | 550,628 | 552,684 | 554,724 | 556,378 |
Where did they rank each year?
| Surname | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yılmaz | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3.8% |
| Kaya | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6.1% |
| Demir | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6.9% |
| Çelik | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5.5% |
| Yıldız | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5.5% |
| Şahin | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4.2% |
| Yıldırım | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4.7% |
| Öztürk | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 3.6% |
| Aydın | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 4.2% |
| Özdemir | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 4.1% |
The list for each year
- 2025Yılmaz1,177,896pop. 86,092,168
- 2024Yılmaz1,174,516pop. 85,664,944
- 2023Yılmaz1,171,014pop. 85,372,377
- 2022Yılmaz1,167,108pop. 85,279,553
- 2021Yılmaz1,160,248pop. 84,680,273
- 2020Yılmaz1,152,872pop. 83,614,362
- 2019Yılmaz1,144,894pop. 83,154,997
- 2018Yılmaz1,134,443pop. 82,003,882
Each year’s top 30 can also be downloaded as a CSV under CC BY 4.0: 2018 · 2019 · 2020 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025
How should these figures be read?
The figures come from TÜİK’s address-based population register (ADNKS) and describe the population resident in Türkiye on 31 December of each year. The NVİ civil register has a different scope, and the NVİ figures reported in the press are clearly higher; this site never puts the two registers in the same table or chart.
Surnames are inherited, not chosen each year, so the ranking barely moves from one year to the next, and most of the growth in the counts simply follows population growth. Changes of rank mostly happen between names whose counts are very close.
Sources
- 1Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK) · ADNKS, TÜİK Nüfus İsim Portalı: En çok kullanılan soyisimler (ADNKS)
- 2Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK) · ADNKS, TÜİK ADNKS: Cinsiyete göre nüfus, Türkiye ve 81 il