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TÜİK · ADNKS 2022

The most common surnames in Burdur 2022

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Burdur is Yılmaz: 3,430 people in 2022. Çelik is second with 2,898. Yılmaz has led Burdur every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
3,4301
ADNKS 2022
Per 1,000
12.52
Yılmaz
Population
273,7992
ADNKS 2022
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Burdur, 2022

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 3,430 12.5 1
02 Çelik 2,898 10.6 4
03 Kaya 2,793 10.2 2
04 Yıldız 2,113 7.7 5
05 Demir 2,106 7.7 3
06 Özdemir 2,068 7.6 10
07 Öztürk 1,990 7.3 8
08 Şahin 1,985 7.2 6
09 Acar 1,962 7.2 28
10 Yıldırım 1,638 6.0 7
11 Uysal 1,603 5.9 –
12 Çetin 1,582 5.8 15
13 Şimşek 1,448 5.3 20
14 Arslan 1,389 5.1 11
15 Özcan 1,387 5.1 25
16 Özkan 1,271 4.6 22
17 Yavuz 1,159 4.2 23
18 Ünal 1,144 4.2 –
19 Kılınç 1,092 4.0 –
20 Can 1,088 4.0 27
21 Erdem 1,034 3.8 –
22 Aydın 1,033 3.8 9
23 Çakır 1,023 3.7 24
24 Akın 1,000 3.7 –
25 Aksoy 986 3.6 –
26 Tekin 974 3.6 –
27 Erkan 958 3.5 –
28 Doğan 946 3.5 12
29 Kara 941 3.4 16
30 Ay 920 3.4 –
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2022, 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 273,799 in 2022, about 12.5 in every 1,000 people in Burdur are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 45,961 people, 16.8% of the population.1,2

Burdur lies in the Mediterranean Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 1.4% between 2018 and 2022.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 268 k 270 k 273 k 275 k 20182019202020212022 269,926 270,796 267,092 273,716 273,799 TÜİK · ADNKS 268 k 270 k 273 k 275 k ’18’20’22 269,926 270,796 267,092 273,716 273,799
Population of Burdur, 2018–2022 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • AfyonkarahisarAfyonkarahisar: also Yılmaz, with 9,884 people in 2022, 2.9 times as many as in Burdur.
  • AntalyaAntalya: also Yılmaz, with 38,917 people in 2022, 11.3 times as many as in Burdur.
  • DenizliDenizli: also Yılmaz, with 12,590 people in 2022, 3.7 times as many as in Burdur.
  • IspartaIsparta: also Yılmaz, with 6,524 people in 2022, 1.9 times as many as in Burdur.
  • MuğlaMuğla: also Yılmaz, with 13,258 people in 2022, 3.9 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