Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Province·Central Anatolia Region·Code 71

TÜİK · ADNKS 2025

The most common surnames in Kırıkkale

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Kırıkkale is Yılmaz: 2,896 people in 2025. It is a close race: Şahin in second place is only 122 people behind. Yılmaz has led Kırıkkale every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
2,8961
ADNKS 2025
Per 1,000
10.22
Yılmaz
Population
282,8302
ADNKS 2025
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Kırıkkale, 2025

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 2,896 10.2 1
02 Şahin 2,774 9.8 6
03 Doğan 2,595 9.2 12
04 Yıldırım 2,405 8.5 7
05 Öztürk 2,086 7.4 8
06 Arslan 1,892 6.7 11
07 Özdemir 1,852 6.5 10
08 Demir 1,822 6.4 3
09 Yıldız 1,614 5.7 5
10 Kılıç 1,603 5.7 13
11 Kaya 1,466 5.2 2
12 Çelik 1,379 4.9 4
13 Karakaya 1,260 4.5 –
14 Kaplan 1,147 4.1 –
15 Aydın 1,074 3.8 9
16 Çetin 1,073 3.8 15
17 Ceylan 958 3.4 –
18 Yeşilyurt 953 3.4 –
19 Aktaş 928 3.3 30
20 Erdoğan 873 3.1 26
21 Aksoy 852 3.0 –
22 Köksal 845 3.0 –
23 Tekin 844 3.0 –
24 Öcal 834 2.9 –
25 Demirel 832 2.9 –
26 Koç 828 2.9 18
27 Şimşek 823 2.9 20
28 Ünal 797 2.8 –
29 Acar 781 2.8 28
30 Karaca 780 2.8 –
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2025, 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 Kırıkkale’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 282,830 in 2025, about 10.2 in every 1,000 people in Kırıkkale are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 40,866 people, 14.4% of the population.1,2

Kırıkkale lies in the Central Anatolia Region. According to ADNKS its population fell by 1.3% between 2018 and 2025.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 275 k 280 k 285 k 20182019202020212022202320242025 286,602 283,017 278,703 275,968 277,046 285,744 283,053 282,830 TÜİK · ADNKS 275 k 280 k 285 k ’18’20’22’24’25 286,602 283,017 278,703 275,968 277,046 285,744 283,053 282,830
Population of Kırıkkale, 2018–2025 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • AnkaraAnkara: also Yılmaz, with 88,766 people in 2025, 30.7 times as many as in Kırıkkale.
  • ÇankırıÇankırı: also Yılmaz, with 2,525 people in 2025, 87% of the figure in Kırıkkale.
  • ÇorumÇorum: Şahin leads (7,613 people); Yılmaz, first in Kırıkkale, ranks 2nd there with 5,834.
  • KırşehirKırşehir: also Yılmaz, with 4,505 people in 2025, 1.6 times as many as in Kırıkkale.
  • YozgatYozgat: Şahin leads (7,409 people); Yılmaz, first in Kırıkkale, ranks 2nd there with 6,654.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Kırıkkale’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 2,975Şahin 2,914Doğan 2,603
2019 Yılmaz 2,868Şahin 2,849Doğan 2,536
2020 Yılmaz 2,813Şahin 2,761Doğan 2,474
2021 Yılmaz 2,813Şahin 2,705Doğan 2,442
2022 Yılmaz 2,825Şahin 2,728Doğan 2,486
2023 Yılmaz 2,930Şahin 2,862Doğan 2,580
2024 Yılmaz 2,899Şahin 2,797Doğan 2,552
2025 Yılmaz 2,896Şahin 2,774Doğan 2,595

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