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TÜİK · ADNKS 2020

The most common surnames in Balıkesir 2020

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Balıkesir is Yılmaz: 13,929 people in 2020. Kaya is second with 9,468. Yılmaz has led Balıkesir every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
13,9291
ADNKS 2020
Per 1,000
11.22
Yılmaz
Population
1,240,2852
ADNKS 2020
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Balıkesir, 2020

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 13,929 11.2 1
02 Kaya 9,468 7.6 2
03 Demir 9,176 7.4 3
04 Yıldız 9,061 7.3 5
05 Özdemir 8,376 6.8 10
06 Şahin 7,316 5.9 6
07 Çetin 7,227 5.8 15
08 Yıldırım 7,135 5.8 7
09 Aydın 7,006 5.6 9
10 Çelik 7,003 5.6 4
11 Çakır 6,694 5.4 23
12 Arslan 6,118 4.9 11
13 Öztürk 5,921 4.8 8
14 Kurt 5,417 4.4 17
15 Şen 5,270 4.2 –
16 Koç 5,098 4.1 18
17 Avcı 4,980 4.0 –
18 Can 4,902 4.0 27
19 Aslan 4,790 3.9 14
20 Özkan 4,548 3.7 22
21 Deniz 4,457 3.6 –
22 Özcan 4,387 3.5 25
23 Acar 4,292 3.5 28
24 Işık 4,281 3.5 –
25 Doğan 4,237 3.4 12
26 Kılıç 4,205 3.4 13
27 Korkmaz 4,078 3.3 21
28 Duman 3,822 3.1 –
29 Kara 3,638 2.9 16
30 Karaca 3,560 2.9 –
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2020, 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 Balıkesir’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 1,240,285 in 2020, about 11.2 in every 1,000 people in Balıkesir are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 180,392 people, 14.5% of the population.1,2

Balıkesir lies in the Marmara Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 1.1% between 2018 and 2020.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 1.23 m 1.23 m 1.24 m 1.24 m 201820192020 1,226,575 1,228,620 1,240,285 TÜİK · ADNKS 1.23 m 1.23 m 1.24 m 1.24 m ’18’20 1,226,575 1,228,620 1,240,285
Population of Balıkesir, 2018–2020 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • BursaBursa: also Yılmaz, with 44,807 people in 2020, 3.2 times as many as in Balıkesir.
  • ÇanakkaleÇanakkale: also Yılmaz, with 8,379 people in 2020, 60% of the figure in Balıkesir.
  • IzmirIzmir: also Yılmaz, with 52,615 people in 2020, 3.8 times as many as in Balıkesir.
  • KütahyaKütahya: also Yılmaz, with 6,365 people in 2020, 46% of the figure in Balıkesir.
  • ManisaManisa: also Yılmaz, with 18,724 people in 2020, 1.3 times as many as in Balıkesir.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Balıkesir’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 13,793Kaya 9,397Demir 8,973
2019 Yılmaz 13,797Kaya 9,357Demir 9,045
2020 Yılmaz 13,929Kaya 9,468Demir 9,176
2021 Yılmaz 13,963Kaya 9,550Demir 9,230
2022 Yılmaz 14,008Kaya 9,667Demir 9,382
2023 Yılmaz 14,160Kaya 9,809Demir 9,546
2024 Yılmaz 14,235Kaya 9,953Demir 9,628
2025 Yılmaz 14,345Kaya 10,079Demir 9,784

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