Province·Black Sea Region·Code 37

TÜİK · ADNKS 2018

The most common surnames in Kastamonu 2018

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Kastamonu is Yılmaz: 6,807 people in 2018. It leads by a wide margin, 1.8 times as many bearers as Demir in second place. Yılmaz has led Kastamonu every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
6,8071
ADNKS 2018
Per 1,000
17.82
Yılmaz
Population
383,3732
ADNKS 2018
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Kastamonu, 2018

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 6,807 17.8 1
02 Demir 3,845 10.0 3
03 Çelik 3,340 8.7 4
04 Kaya 3,301 8.6 2
05 Özdemir 2,983 7.8 10
06 Yıldız 2,718 7.1 5
07 Kara 2,480 6.5 16
08 Öztürk 2,346 6.1 8
09 Şahin 2,314 6.0 6
10 Aydın 2,174 5.7 9
11 Arslan 2,062 5.4 11
12 Acar 1,929 5.0 28
13 Ünal 1,902 5.0 –
14 Demirci 1,798 4.7 –
15 Yıldırım 1,719 4.5 7
16 Özcan 1,622 4.2 24
17 Özkan 1,520 4.0 22
18 Doğan 1,445 3.8 12
19 Şen 1,410 3.7 –
20 Köse 1,220 3.2 –
21 Korkmaz 1,188 3.1 21
22 Kılıç 1,173 3.1 13
23 Çetin 1,132 3.0 15
24 Güler 1,096 2.9 –
25 Can 1,035 2.7 27
26 Baş 1,023 2.7 –
27 Ay 1,000 2.6 –
28 Yüksel 997 2.6 –
29 Öz 971 2.5 –
30 Aslan 954 2.5 14
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2018, 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 Kastamonu’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 383,373 in 2018, about 17.8 in every 1,000 people in Kastamonu are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 59,504 people, 15.5% of the population.1,2

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • BartınBartın: also Yılmaz, with 3,084 people in 2018, 45% of the figure in Kastamonu.
  • ÇankırıÇankırı: also Yılmaz, with 2,744 people in 2018, 40% of the figure in Kastamonu.
  • ÇorumÇorum: Şahin leads (7,987 people); Yılmaz, first in Kastamonu, ranks 2nd there with 5,828.
  • KarabükKarabük: also Yılmaz, with 4,920 people in 2018, 72% of the figure in Kastamonu.
  • SinopSinop: also Yılmaz, with 4,072 people in 2018, 60% of the figure in Kastamonu.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Kastamonu’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 6,807Demir 3,845Çelik 3,340
2019 Yılmaz 6,739Demir 3,832Kaya 3,280
2020 Yılmaz 6,632Demir 3,759Çelik 3,287
2021 Yılmaz 6,633Demir 3,824Kaya 3,319
2022 Yılmaz 6,731Demir 3,885Çelik 3,359
2023 Yılmaz 7,117Demir 4,050Çelik 3,509
2024 Yılmaz 6,950Demir 3,942Çelik 3,405
2025 Yılmaz 6,866Demir 3,914Çelik 3,380

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