Province·Central Anatolia Region·Code 26

TÜİK · ADNKS 2018

The most common surnames in Eskişehir 2018

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Eskişehir is Yılmaz: 11,582 people in 2018. Kaya is second with 7,897. Yılmaz has led Eskişehir every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
11,5821
ADNKS 2018
Per 1,000
13.32
Yılmaz
Population
871,1872
ADNKS 2018
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Eskişehir, 2018

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 11,582 13.3 1
02 Kaya 7,897 9.1 2
03 Demir 6,883 7.9 3
04 Çelik 6,875 7.9 4
05 Yıldırım 6,656 7.6 7
06 Yıldız 6,441 7.4 5
07 Öztürk 6,052 6.9 8
08 Özdemir 5,659 6.5 10
09 Şahin 5,138 5.9 6
10 Çetin 4,679 5.4 15
11 Aydın 4,458 5.1 9
12 Özkan 4,268 4.9 22
13 Özcan 4,095 4.7 24
14 Doğan 3,887 4.5 12
15 Arslan 3,659 4.2 11
16 Kara 3,494 4.0 16
17 Şen 3,461 4.0 –
18 Kılıç 3,264 3.7 13
19 Çakır 3,194 3.7 23
20 Ünal 3,063 3.5 –
21 Can 2,969 3.4 27
22 Yavuz 2,774 3.2 25
23 Kurt 2,679 3.1 17
24 Erdoğan 2,678 3.1 26
25 Yalçın 2,558 2.9 –
26 Yüksel 2,530 2.9 –
27 Güler 2,467 2.8 –
28 Sarı 2,426 2.8 –
29 Turan 2,412 2.8 –
30 Aktaş 2,381 2.7 30
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2018, 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 Eskişehir’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 871,187 in 2018, about 13.3 in every 1,000 people in Eskişehir are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 130,579 people, 15.0% of the population.1,2

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • AfyonkarahisarAfyonkarahisar: also Yılmaz, with 9,566 people in 2018, 83% of the figure in Eskişehir.
  • AnkaraAnkara: also Yılmaz, with 83,212 people in 2018, 7.2 times as many as in Eskişehir.
  • BilecikBilecik: also Yılmaz, with 3,260 people in 2018, 28% of the figure in Eskişehir.
  • BoluBolu: also Yılmaz, with 5,879 people in 2018, 51% of the figure in Eskişehir.
  • KonyaKonya: also Yılmaz, with 23,359 people in 2018, 2.0 times as many as in Eskişehir.
  • KütahyaKütahya: also Yılmaz, with 6,272 people in 2018, 54% of the figure in Eskişehir.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Eskişehir’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 11,582Kaya 7,897Demir 6,883
2019 Yılmaz 11,664Kaya 7,985Demir 7,004
2020 Yılmaz 11,731Kaya 7,978Demir 7,144
2021 Yılmaz 11,867Kaya 8,117Demir 7,179
2022 Yılmaz 11,995Kaya 8,258Demir 7,298
2023 Yılmaz 12,116Kaya 8,423Demir 7,487
2024 Yılmaz 12,252Kaya 8,539Demir 7,658
2025 Yılmaz 12,337Kaya 8,660Demir 7,810

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