Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Province·Black Sea Region·Code 37

TÜİK · ADNKS 2024

The most common surnames in Kastamonu 2024

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Kastamonu is Yılmaz: 6,950 people in 2024. 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
6,9501
ADNKS 2024
Per 1,000
18.22
Yılmaz
Population
381,9912
ADNKS 2024
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Kastamonu, 2024

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 6,950 18.2 1
02 Demir 3,942 10.3 3
03 Çelik 3,405 8.9 4
04 Kaya 3,380 8.8 2
05 Özdemir 2,993 7.8 10
06 Yıldız 2,765 7.2 5
07 Kara 2,502 6.5 16
08 Şahin 2,418 6.3 6
09 Öztürk 2,367 6.2 8
10 Aydın 2,179 5.7 9
11 Arslan 2,131 5.6 11
12 Ünal 1,945 5.1 –
13 Acar 1,907 5.0 28
14 Demirci 1,817 4.8 –
15 Yıldırım 1,744 4.6 7
16 Özcan 1,657 4.3 25
17 Özkan 1,558 4.1 22
18 Doğan 1,463 3.8 12
19 Şen 1,448 3.8 –
20 Korkmaz 1,215 3.2 21
21 Köse 1,185 3.1 –
22 Kılıç 1,181 3.1 13
23 Güler 1,161 3.0 –
24 Çetin 1,124 2.9 15
25 Can 1,084 2.8 27
26 Kurt 1,023 2.7 17
27 Yüksel 1,019 2.7 –
28 Baş 989 2.6 –
29 Aslan 971 2.5 14
30 Ay 959 2.5 –
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2024, 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 381,991 in 2024, about 18.2 in every 1,000 people in Kastamonu are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 60,482 people, 15.8% of the population.1,2

Kastamonu lies in the Black Sea Region. According to ADNKS its population fell by 0.4% between 2018 and 2024.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 375 k 380 k 385 k 390 k 2018201920202021202220232024 383,373 379,405 376,377 375,592 378,115 388,990 381,991 TÜİK · ADNKS 375 k 380 k 385 k 390 k ’18’20’22’24 383,373 379,405 376,377 375,592 378,115 388,990 381,991
Population of Kastamonu, 2018–2024 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • BartınBartın: also Yılmaz, with 3,075 people in 2024, 44% of the figure in Kastamonu.
  • ÇankırıÇankırı: also Yılmaz, with 2,540 people in 2024, 37% of the figure in Kastamonu.
  • ÇorumÇorum: Şahin leads (7,689 people); Yılmaz, first in Kastamonu, ranks 2nd there with 5,810.
  • KarabükKarabük: also Yılmaz, with 4,935 people in 2024, 71% of the figure in Kastamonu.
  • SinopSinop: also Yılmaz, with 4,233 people in 2024, 61% 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