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TÜİK · ADNKS 2021The most common surnames in Türkiye, 2021
Yılmaz stayed first in 2021 with 1,160,248 people, up 7,376 (0.64%) on 2020, much the same gain as the year before (7,978).1 That is about 1.33 times as many as Kaya in second place. The top-ten order is unchanged from 2020; within it, Demir grew fastest (1.10%). Together the top ten are carried by 7,295,693 people, 8.6% of the population, much the same share as in 2020.
Which were the 10 most common surnames in 2021?
- 1 Yılmaz 1,160,248
- 2 Kaya 875,113
- 3 Demir 849,475
- 4 Çelik 701,315
- 5 Yıldız 680,948
- 6 Şahin 676,707
- 7 Yıldırım 654,066
- 8 Öztürk 578,745
- 9 Aydın 571,791
- 10 Özdemir 547,285
The full top 30
| Rank | Surname | People | vs 2020 | Count change | Share of top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Yılmaz | 1,160,248 | = | +7,376 | 15.9% |
| 02 | Kaya | 875,113 | = | +8,566 | 12.0% |
| 03 | Demir | 849,475 | = | +9,205 | 11.6% |
| 04 | Çelik | 701,315 | = | +6,271 | 9.6% |
| 05 | Yıldız | 680,948 | = | +6,030 | 9.3% |
| 06 | Şahin | 676,707 | = | +4,681 | 9.3% |
| 07 | Yıldırım | 654,066 | = | +5,101 | 9.0% |
| 08 | Öztürk | 578,745 | = | +3,327 | 7.9% |
| 09 | Aydın | 571,791 | = | +4,006 | 7.8% |
| 10 | Özdemir | 547,285 | = | +3,721 | 7.5% |
| 11 | Arslan | 509,315 | = | +4,427 | |
| 12 | Doğan | 476,429 | = | +3,742 | |
| 13 | Kılıç | 439,530 | = | +3,977 | |
| 14 | Aslan | 394,631 | = | +4,731 | |
| 15 | Çetin | 339,519 | = | +2,087 | |
| 16 | Kara | 285,063 | = | +1,905 | |
| 17 | Kurt | 283,055 | = | +2,268 | |
| 18 | Koç | 281,173 | = | +2,008 | |
| 19 | Polat | 265,204 | = | +2,780 | |
| 20 | Şimşek | 248,914 | = | +2,122 | |
| 21 | Korkmaz | 245,077 | = | +1,868 | |
| 22 | Özkan | 242,772 | = | +1,091 | |
| 23 | Çakır | 232,182 | = | +1,295 | |
| 24 | Yavuz | 231,852 | = | +1,646 | |
| 25 | Özcan | 231,185 | = | +1,138 | |
| 26 | Erdoğan | 230,523 | = | +1,461 | |
| 27 | Can | 225,627 | = | +1,451 | |
| 28 | Acar | 223,452 | = | +1,693 | |
| 29 | Güneş | 221,112 | = | +2,160 | |
| 30 | Aktaş | 218,098 | = | +1,628 |
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 2021 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 2021 data”.
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