Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

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TÜİK · ADNKS 2020

The most common surnames in Karabük 2020

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Karabük is Yılmaz: 4,803 people in 2020. 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
4,8031
ADNKS 2020
Per 1,000
19.72
Yılmaz
Population
243,6142
ADNKS 2020
Surnames listed
311

The 30 most common surnames in Karabük, 2020

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 4,803 19.7 1
02 Özdemir 2,871 11.8 10
03 Kaya 2,456 10.1 2
04 Öztürk 2,186 9.0 8
05 Demir 2,134 8.8 3
06 Yıldırım 2,002 8.2 7
07 Ünal 1,995 8.2 –
08 Şahin 1,946 8.0 6
09 Aydın 1,905 7.8 9
10 Çelik 1,858 7.6 4
11 Arslan 1,561 6.4 11
12 Yıldız 1,527 6.3 5
13 Çetin 1,212 5.0 15
14 Kara 1,147 4.7 16
15 Acar 1,109 4.6 28
16 Doğan 1,025 4.2 12
17 Aslan 1,022 4.2 14
18 Coşkun 1,016 4.2 –
19 Çetinkaya 993 4.1 –
20 Bozkurt 968 4.0 –
21 Aksoy 967 4.0 –
22 Kılıç 960 3.9 13
23 Bostancı 930 3.8 –
24 Özcan 924 3.8 25
25 Özkan 902 3.7 22
26 Yavuz 900 3.7 24
27 Çakır 843 3.5 23
28 Dereli 838 3.4 –
29= Demirci 819 3.4 –
29= Yalçın 819 3.4 –
30 Erdoğan 777 3.2 26
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 Karabük’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 243,614 in 2020, about 19.7 in every 1,000 people in Karabük are called Yılmaz. The 31 listed surnames together cover 45,415 people, 18.6% of the population.1,2

Karabük lies in the Black Sea Region. According to ADNKS its population fell by 1.8% between 2018 and 2020.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 244 k 246 k 248 k 201820192020 248,014 248,458 243,614 TÜİK · ADNKS 244 k 246 k 248 k ’18’20 248,014 248,458 243,614
Population of Karabük, 2018–2020 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • BartınBartın: also Yılmaz, with 2,980 people in 2020, 62% of the figure in Karabük.
  • BoluBolu: also Yılmaz, with 5,878 people in 2020, 1.2 times as many as in Karabük.
  • ÇankırıÇankırı: also Yılmaz, with 2,450 people in 2020, 51% of the figure in Karabük.
  • KastamonuKastamonu: also Yılmaz, with 6,632 people in 2020, 1.4 times as many as in Karabük.
  • ZonguldakZonguldak: also Yılmaz, with 9,875 people in 2020, 2.1 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