Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

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TÜİK · ADNKS 2022

The most common surnames in Karabük 2022

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Karabük is Yılmaz: 4,901 people in 2022. 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
4,9011
ADNKS 2022
Per 1,000
19.42
Yılmaz
Population
252,0582
ADNKS 2022
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Karabük, 2022

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 4,901 19.4 1
02 Özdemir 2,879 11.4 10
03 Kaya 2,515 10.0 2
04 Demir 2,228 8.8 3
05 Öztürk 2,197 8.7 8
06 Yıldırım 2,066 8.2 7
07 Ünal 2,004 8.0 –
08 Şahin 1,997 7.9 6
09 Çelik 1,940 7.7 4
10 Aydın 1,929 7.7 9
11 Arslan 1,575 6.2 11
12 Yıldız 1,574 6.2 5
13 Çetin 1,232 4.9 15
14 Kara 1,161 4.6 16
15 Acar 1,135 4.5 28
16 Doğan 1,052 4.2 12
17 Coşkun 1,046 4.1 –
18 Bozkurt 1,026 4.1 –
19 Aslan 1,022 4.1 14
20 Çetinkaya 1,000 4.0 –
21 Kılıç 986 3.9 13
22 Aksoy 944 3.7 –
23 Özkan 929 3.7 22
24 Özcan 927 3.7 25
25 Bostancı 921 3.7 –
26 Yavuz 914 3.6 23
27 Çakır 860 3.4 24
28 Dereli 848 3.4 –
29 Demirci 844 3.3 –
30 Yalçın 836 3.3 –
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 Karabük’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 252,058 in 2022, about 19.4 in every 1,000 people in Karabük are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 45,488 people, 18.0% of the population.1,2

Karabük lies in the Black Sea Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 1.6% between 2018 and 2022.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 245 k 250 k 20182019202020212022 248,014 248,458 243,614 249,287 252,058 TÜİK · ADNKS 245 k 250 k ’18’20’22 248,014 248,458 243,614 249,287 252,058
Population of Karabük, 2018–2022 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • BartınBartın: also Yılmaz, with 3,063 people in 2022, 62% of the figure in Karabük.
  • BoluBolu: also Yılmaz, with 5,943 people in 2022, 1.2 times as many as in Karabük.
  • ÇankırıÇankırı: also Yılmaz, with 2,483 people in 2022, 51% of the figure in Karabük.
  • KastamonuKastamonu: also Yılmaz, with 6,731 people in 2022, 1.4 times as many as in Karabük.
  • ZonguldakZonguldak: also Yılmaz, with 9,810 people in 2022, 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