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TÜİK · ADNKS 2021

The most common surnames in Balıkesir 2021

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Balıkesir is Yılmaz: 13,963 people in 2021. Kaya is second with 9,550. Yılmaz has led Balıkesir every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
13,9631
ADNKS 2021
Per 1,000
11.22
Yılmaz
Population
1,250,6102
ADNKS 2021
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Balıkesir, 2021

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 13,963 11.2 1
02 Kaya 9,550 7.6 2
03 Demir 9,230 7.4 3
04 Yıldız 9,093 7.3 5
05 Özdemir 8,365 6.7 10
06 Şahin 7,479 6.0 6
07 Çetin 7,256 5.8 15
08 Yıldırım 7,245 5.8 7
09 Çelik 7,154 5.7 4
10 Aydın 7,107 5.7 9
11 Çakır 6,682 5.3 23
12 Arslan 6,210 5.0 11
13 Öztürk 5,989 4.8 8
14 Kurt 5,457 4.4 17
15 Şen 5,253 4.2 –
16 Koç 5,148 4.1 18
17 Avcı 5,016 4.0 –
18 Can 4,872 3.9 27
19 Aslan 4,856 3.9 14
20 Özkan 4,534 3.6 22
21 Deniz 4,472 3.6 –
22 Özcan 4,384 3.5 25
23 Acar 4,332 3.5 28
24 Işık 4,315 3.5 –
25 Doğan 4,279 3.4 12
26 Kılıç 4,277 3.4 13
27 Korkmaz 4,100 3.3 21
28 Duman 3,814 3.0 –
29 Kara 3,633 2.9 16
30 Bozkurt 3,559 2.8 –
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 Balıkesir’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 1,250,610 in 2021, about 11.2 in every 1,000 people in Balıkesir are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 181,624 people, 14.5% of the population.1,2

Balıkesir lies in the Marmara Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 2.0% between 2018 and 2021.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 1.23 m 1.24 m 1.25 m 2018201920202021 1,226,575 1,228,620 1,240,285 1,250,610 TÜİK · ADNKS 1.23 m 1.24 m 1.25 m ’18’20’21 1,226,575 1,228,620 1,240,285 1,250,610
Population of Balıkesir, 2018–2021 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • BursaBursa: also Yılmaz, with 45,224 people in 2021, 3.2 times as many as in Balıkesir.
  • ÇanakkaleÇanakkale: also Yılmaz, with 8,591 people in 2021, 62% of the figure in Balıkesir.
  • IzmirIzmir: also Yılmaz, with 53,089 people in 2021, 3.8 times as many as in Balıkesir.
  • KütahyaKütahya: also Yılmaz, with 6,330 people in 2021, 45% of the figure in Balıkesir.
  • ManisaManisa: also Yılmaz, with 18,824 people in 2021, 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