Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

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TÜİK · ADNKS 2020

The most common surnames in Bitlis 2020

The most common surname in Bitlis is Demir (3,939 people, 2020). Yılmaz, first nationally, is 3rd in Bitlis. Çelik is second with 3,668. Demir has led Bitlis every year since 2018.1

First place
Demir
People
3,9391
ADNKS 2020
Per 1,000
11.22
Demir
Population
350,9942
ADNKS 2020
Surnames listed
321

The 30 most common surnames in Bitlis, 2020

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Demir 3,939 11.2 3
02 Çelik 3,668 10.5 4
03 Yılmaz 3,084 8.8 1
04 Kaya 2,989 8.5 2
05 Özdemir 2,739 7.8 10
06 Aslan 2,540 7.2 14
07 Yıldız 2,205 6.3 5
08 Aydın 2,030 5.8 9
09 Kardaş 1,997 5.7 –
10 Kaplan 1,962 5.6 –
11 Çetin 1,870 5.3 15
12 Taş 1,844 5.3 –
13 Aktaş 1,558 4.4 30
14 Kılıç 1,508 4.3 13
15 Arslan 1,427 4.1 11
16 Acar 1,329 3.8 28
17 Güneş 1,254 3.6 29
18 Yıldırım 1,251 3.6 7
19 Tarhan 1,206 3.4 –
20 Işık 1,139 3.2 –
21 Sönmez 1,128 3.2 –
22 İnan 1,102 3.1 –
23= Bulut 1,099 3.1 –
23= Çoban 1,099 3.1 –
24 Ekinci 1,094 3.1 –
25= Aksoy 1,062 3.0 –
25= Erdoğan 1,062 3.0 26
26 Akın 1,056 3.0 –
27 Yalçın 1,054 3.0 –
28 Özkan 1,023 2.9 22
29 Korkmaz 1,019 2.9 21
30 Güler 1,013 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 Bitlis’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 350,994 in 2020, about 11.2 in every 1,000 people in Bitlis are called Demir. The 32 listed surnames together cover 54,350 people, 15.5% of the population.1,2

Bitlis lies in the Eastern Anatolia Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 0.5% between 2018 and 2020.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 348 k 349 k 350 k 351 k 201820192020 349,396 348,115 350,994 TÜİK · ADNKS 348 k 349 k 350 k 351 k ’18’20 349,396 348,115 350,994
Population of Bitlis, 2018–2020 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • AğrıAğrı: Kaya leads (16,926 people); Demir, first in Bitlis, ranks 2nd there with 12,814.
  • BatmanBatman: also Demir, with 11,770 people in 2020, 3.0 times as many as in Bitlis.
  • MuşMuş: Çelik leads (7,067 people); Demir, first in Bitlis, ranks 2nd there with 5,909.
  • SiirtSiirt: Yıldız leads (4,322 people); Demir, first in Bitlis, ranks 3rd there with 3,929.
  • VanVan: also Demir, with 17,938 people in 2020, 4.6 times as many as in Bitlis.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Bitlis’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Demir 3,874Çelik 3,584Yılmaz 3,147
2019 Demir 3,907Çelik 3,633Yılmaz 3,061
2020 Demir 3,939Çelik 3,668Yılmaz 3,084
2021 Demir 4,006Çelik 3,683Yılmaz 3,109
2022 Demir 4,049Çelik 3,683Yılmaz 3,085
2023 Demir 4,125Çelik 3,640Kaya 3,127
2024 Demir 4,094Çelik 3,599Yılmaz 3,158
2025 Demir 3,990Çelik 3,597Yılmaz 3,155

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