Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Province·Black Sea Region·Code 78

TÜİK · ADNKS 2023

The most common surnames in Karabük 2023

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Karabük is Yılmaz: 5,050 people in 2023. It leads by a wide margin, 1.8 times as many bearers as Özdemir in second place. Yılmaz has led Karabük every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
5,0501
ADNKS 2023
Per 1,000
19.82
Yılmaz
Population
255,2422
ADNKS 2023
Surnames listed
311

The 30 most common surnames in Karabük, 2023

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 5,050 19.8 1
02 Özdemir 2,872 11.3 10
03 Kaya 2,528 9.9 2
04 Demir 2,278 8.9 3
05 Öztürk 2,218 8.7 8
06 Yıldırım 2,144 8.4 7
07 Şahin 2,019 7.9 6
08 Ünal 2,009 7.9 –
09 Çelik 1,965 7.7 4
10 Aydın 1,945 7.6 9
11 Yıldız 1,612 6.3 5
12 Arslan 1,571 6.2 11
13 Çetin 1,254 4.9 15
14 Kara 1,174 4.6 16
15 Acar 1,152 4.5 28
16 Doğan 1,113 4.4 12
17 Bozkurt 1,056 4.1 –
18 Coşkun 1,055 4.1 –
19 Aslan 1,047 4.1 14
20 Kılıç 999 3.9 13
21 Çetinkaya 997 3.9 –
22 Aksoy 950 3.7 –
23 Bostancı 945 3.7 –
24= Özcan 938 3.7 25
24= Yavuz 938 3.7 23
25 Özkan 935 3.7 22
26 Demirci 930 3.6 –
27 Çakır 888 3.5 24
28 Yalçın 876 3.4 –
29 Dereli 871 3.4 –
30 Erdoğan 835 3.3 26
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2023, 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 255,242 in 2023, about 19.8 in every 1,000 people in Karabük are called Yılmaz. The 31 listed surnames together cover 47,164 people, 18.5% of the population.1,2

Karabük lies in the Black Sea Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 2.9% between 2018 and 2023.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 245 k 250 k 255 k 201820192020202120222023 248,014 248,458 243,614 249,287 252,058 255,242 TÜİK · ADNKS 245 k 250 k 255 k ’18’20’22’23 248,014 248,458 243,614 249,287 252,058 255,242
Population of Karabük, 2018–2023 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • BartınBartın: also Yılmaz, with 3,131 people in 2023, 62% of the figure in Karabük.
  • BoluBolu: also Yılmaz, with 6,053 people in 2023, 1.2 times as many as in Karabük.
  • ÇankırıÇankırı: also Yılmaz, with 2,646 people in 2023, 52% of the figure in Karabük.
  • KastamonuKastamonu: also Yılmaz, with 7,117 people in 2023, 1.4 times as many as in Karabük.
  • ZonguldakZonguldak: also Yılmaz, with 9,874 people in 2023, 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