Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

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TÜİK · ADNKS 2020

The most common surnames in Burdur 2020

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Burdur is Yılmaz: 3,310 people in 2020. Çelik is second with 2,881. Yılmaz has led Burdur every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
3,3101
ADNKS 2020
Per 1,000
12.42
Yılmaz
Population
267,0922
ADNKS 2020
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Burdur, 2020

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 3,310 12.4 1
02 Çelik 2,881 10.8 4
03 Kaya 2,657 9.9 2
04 Özdemir 2,081 7.8 10
05 Yıldız 2,060 7.7 5
06 Demir 1,970 7.4 3
07 Acar 1,956 7.3 28
08 Şahin 1,954 7.3 6
09 Öztürk 1,908 7.1 8
10 Uysal 1,607 6.0 –
11 Yıldırım 1,578 5.9 7
12 Çetin 1,533 5.7 15
13 Şimşek 1,438 5.4 20
14 Özcan 1,401 5.2 25
15 Arslan 1,356 5.1 11
16 Özkan 1,268 4.7 22
17 Ünal 1,161 4.3 –
18 Yavuz 1,145 4.3 24
19 Kılınç 1,118 4.2 –
20 Can 1,073 4.0 27
21 Erdem 1,035 3.9 –
22 Akın 1,032 3.9 –
23 Çakır 1,025 3.8 23
24 Aydın 1,008 3.8 9
25 Aksoy 979 3.7 –
26 Tekin 963 3.6 –
27 Erkan 956 3.6 –
28 Kara 947 3.5 16
29 Doğan 930 3.5 12
30 Ay 920 3.4 –
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 Burdur’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 267,092 in 2020, about 12.4 in every 1,000 people in Burdur are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 45,250 people, 16.9% of the population.1,2

Burdur lies in the Mediterranean Region. According to ADNKS its population fell by 1.0% between 2018 and 2020.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 268 k 270 k 201820192020 269,926 270,796 267,092 TÜİK · ADNKS 268 k 270 k ’18’20 269,926 270,796 267,092
Population of Burdur, 2018–2020 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • AfyonkarahisarAfyonkarahisar: also Yılmaz, with 9,713 people in 2020, 2.9 times as many as in Burdur.
  • AntalyaAntalya: also Yılmaz, with 38,259 people in 2020, 11.6 times as many as in Burdur.
  • DenizliDenizli: also Yılmaz, with 12,387 people in 2020, 3.7 times as many as in Burdur.
  • IspartaIsparta: also Yılmaz, with 6,539 people in 2020, 2.0 times as many as in Burdur.
  • MuğlaMuğla: also Yılmaz, with 12,724 people in 2020, 3.8 times as many as in Burdur.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Burdur’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 3,318Çelik 2,915Kaya 2,658
2019 Yılmaz 3,352Çelik 2,936Kaya 2,726
2020 Yılmaz 3,310Çelik 2,881Kaya 2,657
2021 Yılmaz 3,439Çelik 2,917Kaya 2,765
2022 Yılmaz 3,430Çelik 2,898Kaya 2,793
2023 Yılmaz 3,432Çelik 2,997Kaya 2,880
2024 Yılmaz 3,410Çelik 2,932Kaya 2,818
2025 Yılmaz 3,390Çelik 2,915Kaya 2,832

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