Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Province·Black Sea Region·Code 78

TÜİK · ADNKS 2019

The most common surnames in Karabük 2019

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Karabük is Yılmaz: 4,870 people in 2019. It leads by a wide margin, 1.7 times as many bearers as Özdemir in second place. Yılmaz has led Karabük every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
4,8701
ADNKS 2019
Per 1,000
19.62
Yılmaz
Population
248,4582
ADNKS 2019
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Karabük, 2019

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 4,870 19.6 1
02 Özdemir 2,865 11.5 10
03 Kaya 2,514 10.1 2
04 Demir 2,200 8.9 3
05 Öztürk 2,186 8.8 8
06 Yıldırım 2,023 8.1 7
07 Ünal 1,993 8.0 –
08 Şahin 1,990 8.0 6
09 Aydın 1,973 7.9 9
10 Çelik 1,906 7.7 4
11 Arslan 1,596 6.4 11
12 Yıldız 1,589 6.4 5
13 Çetin 1,234 5.0 15
14 Kara 1,178 4.7 16
15 Acar 1,145 4.6 28
16 Doğan 1,044 4.2 12
17 Aslan 1,039 4.2 14
18 Coşkun 1,017 4.1 –
19 Çetinkaya 1,010 4.1 –
20 Kılıç 997 4.0 13
21 Aksoy 992 4.0 –
22 Bozkurt 979 3.9 –
23 Özcan 943 3.8 24
24 Bostancı 941 3.8 –
25 Özkan 924 3.7 22
26 Yavuz 913 3.7 25
27 Çakır 884 3.6 23
28 Dereli 836 3.4 –
29 Yalçın 832 3.3 –
30 Demirci 825 3.3 –
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2019, 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 Karabük’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 248,458 in 2019, about 19.6 in every 1,000 people in Karabük are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 45,438 people, 18.3% of the population.1,2

Karabük lies in the Black Sea Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 0.2% between 2018 and 2019.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 248 k 248 k 248 k 20182019 248,014 248,458 TÜİK · ADNKS 248 k 248 k 248 k ’18’19 248,014 248,458
Population of Karabük, 2018–2019 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • BartınBartın: also Yılmaz, with 2,992 people in 2019, 61% of the figure in Karabük.
  • BoluBolu: also Yılmaz, with 5,859 people in 2019, 1.2 times as many as in Karabük.
  • ÇankırıÇankırı: also Yılmaz, with 2,518 people in 2019, 52% of the figure in Karabük.
  • KastamonuKastamonu: also Yılmaz, with 6,739 people in 2019, 1.4 times as many as in Karabük.
  • ZonguldakZonguldak: also Yılmaz, with 9,924 people in 2019, 2.0 times as many as in Karabük.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Karabük’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 4,920Özdemir 2,891Kaya 2,528
2019 Yılmaz 4,870Özdemir 2,865Kaya 2,514
2020 Yılmaz 4,803Özdemir 2,871Kaya 2,456
2021 Yılmaz 4,819Özdemir 2,876Kaya 2,463
2022 Yılmaz 4,901Özdemir 2,879Kaya 2,515
2023 Yılmaz 5,050Özdemir 2,872Kaya 2,528
2024 Yılmaz 4,935Özdemir 2,841Kaya 2,470
2025 Yılmaz 4,892Özdemir 2,813Kaya 2,456

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