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TÜİK · ADNKS 2023

The most common surnames in Balıkesir 2023

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Balıkesir is Yılmaz: 14,160 people in 2023. Kaya is second with 9,809. Yılmaz has led Balıkesir every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
14,1601
ADNKS 2023
Per 1,000
11.12
Yılmaz
Population
1,273,5192
ADNKS 2023
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Balıkesir, 2023

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 14,160 11.1 1
02 Kaya 9,809 7.7 2
03 Demir 9,546 7.5 3
04 Yıldız 9,257 7.3 5
05 Özdemir 8,647 6.8 10
06 Şahin 7,643 6.0 6
07 Yıldırım 7,307 5.7 7
08 Çelik 7,290 5.7 4
09 Aydın 7,269 5.7 9
10 Çetin 7,232 5.7 15
11 Çakır 6,736 5.3 24
12 Arslan 6,389 5.0 11
13 Öztürk 6,177 4.9 8
14 Kurt 5,551 4.4 17
15 Koç 5,298 4.2 18
16 Şen 5,280 4.1 –
17 Avcı 4,988 3.9 –
18 Aslan 4,984 3.9 14
19 Can 4,971 3.9 27
20 Özkan 4,578 3.6 22
21 Doğan 4,533 3.6 12
22 Deniz 4,477 3.5 –
23 Özcan 4,469 3.5 25
24 Kılıç 4,393 3.4 13
25 Acar 4,344 3.4 28
26 Işık 4,308 3.4 –
27 Korkmaz 4,274 3.4 21
28 Duman 3,820 3.0 –
29 Kara 3,706 2.9 16
30 Keskin 3,648 2.9 –
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 Balıkesir’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 1,273,519 in 2023, about 11.1 in every 1,000 people in Balıkesir are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 185,084 people, 14.5% of the population.1,2

Balıkesir lies in the Marmara Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 3.8% between 2018 and 2023.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 1.22 m 1.24 m 1.26 m 1.28 m 201820192020202120222023 1,226,575 1,228,620 1,240,285 1,250,610 1,257,590 1,273,519 TÜİK · ADNKS 1.22 m 1.24 m 1.26 m 1.28 m ’18’20’22’23 1,226,575 1,228,620 1,240,285 1,250,610 1,257,590 1,273,519
Population of Balıkesir, 2018–2023 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • BursaBursa: also Yılmaz, with 45,834 people in 2023, 3.2 times as many as in Balıkesir.
  • ÇanakkaleÇanakkale: also Yılmaz, with 8,776 people in 2023, 62% of the figure in Balıkesir.
  • IzmirIzmir: also Yılmaz, with 53,700 people in 2023, 3.8 times as many as in Balıkesir.
  • KütahyaKütahya: also Yılmaz, with 6,288 people in 2023, 44% of the figure in Balıkesir.
  • ManisaManisa: also Yılmaz, with 19,005 people in 2023, 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