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TÜİK · ADNKS 2021

The most common surnames in Kırıkkale 2021

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Kırıkkale is Yılmaz: 2,813 people in 2021. It is a close race: Şahin in second place is only 108 people behind. Yılmaz has led Kırıkkale every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
2,8131
ADNKS 2021
Per 1,000
10.22
Yılmaz
Population
275,9682
ADNKS 2021
Surnames listed
321

The 30 most common surnames in Kırıkkale, 2021

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 2,813 10.2 1
02 Şahin 2,705 9.8 6
03 Doğan 2,442 8.8 12
04 Yıldırım 2,310 8.4 7
05 Öztürk 2,005 7.3 8
06 Arslan 1,885 6.8 11
07 Özdemir 1,793 6.5 10
08 Demir 1,761 6.4 3
09 Kılıç 1,542 5.6 13
10 Yıldız 1,469 5.3 5
11 Kaya 1,372 5.0 2
12 Çelik 1,356 4.9 4
13 Karakaya 1,249 4.5 –
14 Kaplan 1,125 4.1 –
15 Çetin 1,044 3.8 15
16 Aydın 1,040 3.8 9
17 Ceylan 969 3.5 –
18 Yeşilyurt 926 3.4 –
19 Aktaş 903 3.3 30
20= Aksoy 849 3.1 –
20= Erdoğan 849 3.1 26
21 Köksal 832 3.0 –
22 Öcal 803 2.9 –
23 Ünal 797 2.9 –
24 Bozkurt 785 2.8 –
25 Demirel 779 2.8 –
26= Koç 778 2.8 18
26= Şimşek 778 2.8 20
27 Tekin 775 2.8 –
28 Karaca 772 2.8 –
29 Acar 763 2.8 28
30 Eroğlu 748 2.7 –
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2021, 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 275,968 in 2021, about 10.2 in every 1,000 people in Kırıkkale are called Yılmaz. The 32 listed surnames together cover 41,017 people, 14.9% of the population.1,2

Kırıkkale lies in the Central Anatolia Region. According to ADNKS its population fell by 3.7% between 2018 and 2021.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 275 k 280 k 285 k 2018201920202021 286,602 283,017 278,703 275,968 TÜİK · ADNKS 275 k 280 k 285 k ’18’20’21 286,602 283,017 278,703 275,968
Population of Kırıkkale, 2018–2021 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • AnkaraAnkara: also Yılmaz, with 86,270 people in 2021, 30.7 times as many as in Kırıkkale.
  • ÇankırıÇankırı: also Yılmaz, with 2,501 people in 2021, 89% of the figure in Kırıkkale.
  • ÇorumÇorum: Şahin leads (7,800 people); Yılmaz, first in Kırıkkale, ranks 2nd there with 5,803.
  • KırşehirKırşehir: also Yılmaz, with 4,410 people in 2021, 1.6 times as many as in Kırıkkale.
  • YozgatYozgat: Şahin leads (7,566 people); Yılmaz, first in Kırıkkale, ranks 2nd there with 6,889.

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