Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Province·Aegean Region·Code 09

TÜİK · ADNKS 2023

The most common surnames in Aydın 2023

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Aydın is Yılmaz: 12,524 people in 2023. Demir is second with 10,443. Yılmaz has led Aydın every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
12,5241
ADNKS 2023
Per 1,000
10.82
Yılmaz
Population
1,161,7022
ADNKS 2023
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Aydın, 2023

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 12,524 10.8 1
02 Demir 10,443 9.0 3
03 Kaya 10,438 9.0 2
04 Çelik 9,014 7.8 4
05 Yıldırım 8,141 7.0 7
06 Aydın 7,998 6.9 9
07 Yıldız 7,684 6.6 5
08 Öztürk 7,670 6.6 8
09 Özdemir 7,527 6.5 10
10 Şahin 6,528 5.6 6
11 Çetin 5,805 5.0 15
12 Arslan 5,772 5.0 11
13 Doğan 4,491 3.9 12
14 Özkan 4,233 3.6 22
15 Özcan 3,923 3.4 25
16 Acar 3,915 3.4 28
17 Şimşek 3,718 3.2 20
18 Güler 3,643 3.1 –
19 Kılıç 3,614 3.1 13
20 Avcı 3,588 3.1 –
21 Aslan 3,526 3.0 14
22 Can 3,460 3.0 27
23 Aktaş 3,261 2.8 30
24 Çoban 3,230 2.8 –
25 Uysal 3,151 2.7 –
26 Koç 3,094 2.7 18
27 Kurt 2,999 2.6 17
28 Korkmaz 2,996 2.6 21
29 Özer 2,907 2.5 –
30 Çakır 2,876 2.5 24
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2023, 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 Aydın’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 1,161,702 in 2023, about 10.8 in every 1,000 people in Aydın are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 162,169 people, 14.0% of the population.1,2

Aydın lies in the Aegean Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 5.8% between 2018 and 2023.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 1.1 m 1.13 m 1.15 m 201820192020202120222023 1,097,746 1,110,972 1,119,084 1,134,031 1,148,241 1,161,702 TÜİK · ADNKS 1.1 m 1.13 m 1.15 m ’18’20’22’23 1,097,746 1,110,972 1,119,084 1,134,031 1,148,241 1,161,702
Population of Aydın, 2018–2023 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • DenizliDenizli: also Yılmaz, with 12,626 people in 2023, almost exactly as many as in Aydın.
  • IzmirIzmir: also Yılmaz, with 53,700 people in 2023, 4.3 times as many as in Aydın.
  • ManisaManisa: also Yılmaz, with 19,005 people in 2023, 1.5 times as many as in Aydın.
  • MuğlaMuğla: also Yılmaz, with 13,490 people in 2023, 1.1 times as many as in Aydın.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Aydın’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 11,922Demir 9,733Kaya 9,720
2019 Yılmaz 12,041Demir 9,840Kaya 9,835
2020 Yılmaz 12,076Demir 9,887Kaya 9,872
2021 Yılmaz 12,290Kaya 10,035Demir 10,031
2022 Yılmaz 12,401Kaya 10,253Demir 10,221
2023 Yılmaz 12,524Demir 10,443Kaya 10,438
2024 Yılmaz 12,563Kaya 10,507Demir 10,472
2025 Yılmaz 12,591Kaya 10,652Demir 10,450

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