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National ranking·Top 30

TÜİK · ADNKS 2018

The most common surnames in Türkiye, 2018

In 2018 the most common surname in Türkiye was Yılmaz, carried by 1,134,443 people.1 That is about 1.34 times as many as Kaya in second place. Together the top ten are carried by 7,100,088 people, 8.7% of the population.

First place
Yılmaz
People
1,134,4431
Yılmaz
Top-10 total
7,100,0881
Top 10 share of population
8.7%2
Population
82,003,8822
ADNKS 2018

Which were the 10 most common surnames in 2018?

  1. 1 Yılmaz 1,134,443
  2. 2 Kaya 847,737
  3. 3 Demir 820,156
  4. 4 Çelik 680,558
  5. 5 Yıldız 660,780
  6. 6 Şahin 660,634
  7. 7 Yıldırım 636,738
  8. 8 Öztürk 566,330
  9. 9 Aydın 558,089
  10. 10 Özdemir 534,623
People, TÜİK ADNKS 2018. Bars start at zero.

The full top 30

RankSurnamePeoplevs 2017Count changeShare of top 10
01 Yılmaz 1,134,443 – 16.0%
02 Kaya 847,737 – 11.9%
03 Demir 820,156 – 11.6%
04 Çelik 680,558 – 9.6%
05 Yıldız 660,780 – 9.3%
06 Şahin 660,634 – 9.3%
07 Yıldırım 636,738 – 9.0%
08 Öztürk 566,330 – 8.0%
09 Aydın 558,089 – 7.9%
10 Özdemir 534,623 – 7.5%
11 Arslan 494,860 –
12 Doğan 464,024 –
13 Kılıç 426,173 –
14 Aslan 378,965 –
15 Çetin 331,919 –
16 Kara 278,159 –
17 Kurt 275,188 –
18 Koç 274,215 –
19 Polat 255,697 –
20 Şimşek 242,142 –
21 Korkmaz 238,804 –
22 Özkan 238,478 –
23 Çakır 227,590 –
24 Özcan 226,838 –
25 Yavuz 226,111 –
26 Erdoğan 225,602 –
27 Can 220,262 –
28 Acar 217,677 –
29 Güneş 213,985 –
30 Aktaş 212,536 –
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2018. The top 30 are carried by 12,769,313 people in all.1

How should this ranking 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.

Ranks are shown exactly as TÜİK publishes them: names with equal counts share a rank, and the next rank is not skipped. The share of the top ten is each name’s count divided by the combined count of that year’s top ten.

Can I download this data or embed the chart?

The whole 2018 list is available as a CSV file, and the chart is a standalone SVG. Both are licensed CC BY 4.0: credit “turkiyesoyadlari.com, from TÜİK ADNKS 2018 data”.

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Sources

  1. 1Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK) · ADNKS, TÜİK Nüfus İsim Portalı: En çok kullanılan soyisimler (ADNKS)
  2. 2Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK) · ADNKS, TÜİK ADNKS: Cinsiyete göre nüfus, Türkiye ve 81 il