Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

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TÜİK · ADNKS 2021

The most common surnames in Karabük 2021

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Karabük is Yılmaz: 4,819 people in 2021. 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
4,8191
ADNKS 2021
Per 1,000
19.32
Yılmaz
Population
249,2872
ADNKS 2021
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Karabük, 2021

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 4,819 19.3 1
02 Özdemir 2,876 11.5 10
03 Kaya 2,463 9.9 2
04 Demir 2,198 8.8 3
05 Öztürk 2,196 8.8 8
06 Yıldırım 2,053 8.2 7
07 Ünal 2,007 8.1 –
08 Şahin 1,985 8.0 6
09 Aydın 1,948 7.8 9
10 Çelik 1,933 7.8 4
11 Arslan 1,563 6.3 11
12 Yıldız 1,551 6.2 5
13 Çetin 1,215 4.9 15
14 Kara 1,156 4.6 16
15 Acar 1,136 4.6 28
16 Coşkun 1,033 4.1 –
17 Doğan 1,026 4.1 12
18 Aslan 1,016 4.1 14
19 Bozkurt 1,004 4.0 –
20 Çetinkaya 999 4.0 –
21 Kılıç 993 4.0 13
22 Aksoy 955 3.8 –
23 Özcan 924 3.7 25
24 Bostancı 921 3.7 –
25 Yavuz 919 3.7 24
26 Özkan 916 3.7 22
27 Çakır 857 3.4 23
28 Dereli 831 3.3 –
29 Yalçın 829 3.3 –
30 Demirci 825 3.3 –
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2021, 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 249,287 in 2021, about 19.3 in every 1,000 people in Karabük are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 45,147 people, 18.1% of the population.1,2

Karabük lies in the Black Sea Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 0.5% between 2018 and 2021.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 244 k 246 k 248 k 250 k 2018201920202021 248,014 248,458 243,614 249,287 TÜİK · ADNKS 244 k 246 k 248 k 250 k ’18’20’21 248,014 248,458 243,614 249,287
Population of Karabük, 2018–2021 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • BartınBartın: also Yılmaz, with 3,028 people in 2021, 63% of the figure in Karabük.
  • BoluBolu: also Yılmaz, with 5,940 people in 2021, 1.2 times as many as in Karabük.
  • ÇankırıÇankırı: also Yılmaz, with 2,501 people in 2021, 52% of the figure in Karabük.
  • KastamonuKastamonu: also Yılmaz, with 6,633 people in 2021, 1.4 times as many as in Karabük.
  • ZonguldakZonguldak: also Yılmaz, with 9,901 people in 2021, 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