Province·Black Sea Region·Code 08

TÜİK · ADNKS 2021

The most common surnames in Artvin 2021

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Artvin is Yılmaz: 4,539 people in 2021. It leads by a wide margin, 1.9 times as many bearers as Aydın in second place. Yılmaz has led Artvin every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
4,5391
ADNKS 2021
Per 1,000
26.82
Yılmaz
Population
169,5432
ADNKS 2021
Surnames listed
311

The 30 most common surnames in Artvin, 2021

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 4,539 26.8 1
02 Aydın 2,356 13.9 9
03 Çelik 2,279 13.4 4
04 Yıldırım 2,148 12.7 7
05 Öztürk 2,037 12.0 8
06 Yıldız 1,637 9.7 5
07 Demir 1,501 8.9 3
08 Kaya 1,489 8.8 2
09 Altun 1,416 8.4 –
10 Şahin 1,369 8.1 6
11 Yazıcı 1,209 7.1 –
12 Ustabaş 1,200 7.1 –
13 Özdemir 1,194 7.0 10
14 Şimşek 1,189 7.0 20
15= Demirci 1,147 6.8 –
15= Durmuş 1,147 6.8 –
16 Kara 1,070 6.3 16
17 Arslan 1,013 6.0 11
18 Topal 910 5.4 –
19 Keskin 909 5.4 –
20 Özkan 895 5.3 22
21 Uzun 872 5.1 –
22 Kılıç 830 4.9 13
23 Avcı 807 4.8 –
24 Genç 792 4.7 –
25 Gümüş 791 4.7 –
26 Çakır 766 4.5 23
27 Balcı 741 4.4 –
28 Alkan 713 4.2 –
29 Turan 704 4.2 –
30 Şentürk 699 4.1 –
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2021, province top 30; ranks as published (ties share a rank). Per 1,000: share of the province population. National rank: place in the national top 30.1,2

How do these counts compare with Artvin’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 169,543 in 2021, about 26.8 in every 1,000 people in Artvin are called Yılmaz. The 31 listed surnames together cover 40,369 people, 23.8% of the population.1,2

Artvin lies in the Black Sea Region. According to ADNKS its population fell by 2.6% between 2018 and 2021.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 170 k 172 k 174 k 2018201920202021 174,010 170,875 169,501 169,543 TÜİK · ADNKS 170 k 172 k 174 k ’18’20’21 174,010 170,875 169,501 169,543
Population of Artvin, 2018–2021 Vertical axis does not start at zero.
Population of Artvin, 2018–2021
2018174,010
2019170,875
2020169,501
2021169,543

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • ArdahanArdahan: also Yılmaz, with 3,053 people in 2021, 67% of the figure in Artvin.
  • ErzurumErzurum: also Yılmaz, with 10,923 people in 2021, 2.4 times as many as in Artvin.
  • RizeRize: also Yılmaz, with 8,785 people in 2021, 1.9 times as many as in Artvin.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Artvin’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 4,643Aydın 2,399Çelik 2,361
2019 Yılmaz 4,559Aydın 2,351Çelik 2,323
2020 Yılmaz 4,521Aydın 2,379Çelik 2,275
2021 Yılmaz 4,539Aydın 2,356Çelik 2,279
2022 Yılmaz 4,575Aydın 2,297Çelik 2,272
2023 Yılmaz 4,679Aydın 2,371Çelik 2,294
2024 Yılmaz 4,576Aydın 2,327Çelik 2,251
2025 Yılmaz 4,504Aydın 2,310Çelik 2,221

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
  3. 3Natural Earth, Natural Earth: Admin-1 boundaries