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TÜİK · ADNKS 2021

The most common surnames in Bilecik 2021

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Bilecik is Yılmaz: 3,404 people in 2021. Kaya is second with 2,587. Yılmaz has led Bilecik every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
3,4041
ADNKS 2021
Per 1,000
14.92
Yılmaz
Population
228,3342
ADNKS 2021
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Bilecik, 2021

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 3,404 14.9 1
02 Kaya 2,587 11.3 2
03 Çelik 2,414 10.6 4
04 Demir 2,396 10.5 3
05 Yıldırım 1,933 8.5 7
06 Şahin 1,902 8.3 6
07 Yıldız 1,750 7.7 5
08 Aydın 1,701 7.4 9
09 Öztürk 1,671 7.3 8
10 Özdemir 1,385 6.1 10
11 Ünal 1,191 5.2 –
12 Çakır 1,184 5.2 23
13 Arslan 1,175 5.1 11
14 Kara 1,048 4.6 16
15 Çetin 1,043 4.6 15
16 Can 980 4.3 27
17 Özkan 972 4.3 22
18 Doğan 932 4.1 12
19 Kılıç 913 4.0 13
20 Kurt 898 3.9 17
21 Güven 895 3.9 –
22 Uysal 874 3.8 –
23 Şen 821 3.6 –
24 Turan 801 3.5 –
25 Avcı 792 3.5 –
26 Sarı 791 3.5 –
27 Keskin 757 3.3 –
28 Köse 746 3.3 –
29 Yavuz 737 3.2 24
30 Özcan 731 3.2 25
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 Bilecik’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 228,334 in 2021, about 14.9 in every 1,000 people in Bilecik are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 39,424 people, 17.3% of the population.1,2

Bilecik lies in the Marmara Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 2.2% between 2018 and 2021.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 220 k 225 k 230 k 2018201920202021 223,448 219,427 218,717 228,334 TÜİK · ADNKS 220 k 225 k 230 k ’18’20’21 223,448 219,427 218,717 228,334
Population of Bilecik, 2018–2021 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • BoluBolu: also Yılmaz, with 5,940 people in 2021, 1.7 times as many as in Bilecik.
  • BursaBursa: also Yılmaz, with 45,224 people in 2021, 13.3 times as many as in Bilecik.
  • EskişehirEskişehir: also Yılmaz, with 11,867 people in 2021, 3.5 times as many as in Bilecik.
  • KütahyaKütahya: also Yılmaz, with 6,330 people in 2021, 1.9 times as many as in Bilecik.
  • SakaryaSakarya: also Yılmaz, with 16,575 people in 2021, 4.9 times as many as in Bilecik.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Bilecik’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 3,260Kaya 2,486Çelik 2,402
2019 Yılmaz 3,261Kaya 2,419Çelik 2,366
2020 Yılmaz 3,258Kaya 2,464Çelik 2,337
2021 Yılmaz 3,404Kaya 2,587Çelik 2,414
2022 Yılmaz 3,432Kaya 2,623Çelik 2,457
2023 Yılmaz 3,366Kaya 2,591Çelik 2,475
2024 Yılmaz 3,352Kaya 2,589Çelik 2,465
2025 Yılmaz 3,322Kaya 2,574Çelik 2,491

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