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TÜİK · ADNKS 2020The most common surnames in Türkiye, 2020
Yılmaz stayed first in 2020 with 1,152,872 people, up 7,978 (0.70%) on 2019, a smaller gain than the 10,451 of the year before.1 That is about 1.33 times as many as Kaya in second place. The top-ten order is unchanged from 2019; within it, Demir grew fastest (1.10%). Together the top ten are carried by 7,237,409 people, 8.7% of the population, much the same share as in 2019.
Which were the 10 most common surnames in 2020?
- 1 Yılmaz 1,152,872
- 2 Kaya 866,547
- 3 Demir 840,270
- 4 Çelik 695,044
- 5 Yıldız 674,918
- 6 Şahin 672,026
- 7 Yıldırım 648,965
- 8 Öztürk 575,418
- 9 Aydın 567,785
- 10 Özdemir 543,564
The full top 30
| Rank | Surname | People | vs 2019 | Count change | Share of top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Yılmaz | 1,152,872 | = | +7,978 | 15.9% |
| 02 | Kaya | 866,547 | = | +8,149 | 12.0% |
| 03 | Demir | 840,270 | = | +9,175 | 11.6% |
| 04 | Çelik | 695,044 | = | +6,440 | 9.6% |
| 05 | Yıldız | 674,918 | = | +6,440 | 9.3% |
| 06 | Şahin | 672,026 | = | +4,865 | 9.3% |
| 07 | Yıldırım | 648,965 | = | +5,394 | 9.0% |
| 08 | Öztürk | 575,418 | = | +4,014 | 8.0% |
| 09 | Aydın | 567,785 | = | +4,215 | 7.8% |
| 10 | Özdemir | 543,564 | = | +3,819 | 7.5% |
| 11 | Arslan | 504,888 | = | +4,462 | |
| 12 | Doğan | 472,687 | = | +3,742 | |
| 13 | Kılıç | 435,553 | = | +4,121 | |
| 14 | Aslan | 389,900 | = | +5,165 | |
| 15 | Çetin | 337,432 | = | +2,418 | |
| 16 | Kara | 283,158 | = | +2,170 | |
| 17 | Kurt | 280,787 | = | +2,572 | |
| 18 | Koç | 279,165 | = | +2,146 | |
| 19 | Polat | 262,424 | = | +3,062 | |
| 20 | Şimşek | 246,792 | = | +1,902 | |
| 21 | Korkmaz | 243,209 | = | +1,895 | |
| 22 | Özkan | 241,681 | = | +1,370 | |
| 23 | Çakır | 230,887 | = | +1,299 | |
| 24 | Yavuz | 230,206 | ▲ 1 | +1,771 | |
| 25 | Özcan | 230,047 | ▼ 1 | +1,388 | |
| 26 | Erdoğan | 229,062 | = | +1,476 | |
| 27 | Can | 224,176 | = | +1,575 | |
| 28 | Acar | 221,759 | = | +1,699 | |
| 29 | Güneş | 218,952 | = | +2,330 | |
| 30 | Aktaş | 216,470 | = | +1,681 |
Who climbed and who fell between 2019 and 2020?
The biggest climber was Yavuz, up 1 place from 25th to 24th. The biggest faller was Özcan, from 24th to 25th.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 2020 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 2020 data”.
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- 1Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK) · ADNKS, TÜİK Nüfus İsim Portalı: En çok kullanılan soyisimler (ADNKS)
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