Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Province·Aegean Region·Code 43

TÜİK · ADNKS 2022

The most common surnames in Kütahya 2022

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Kütahya is Yılmaz: 6,313 people in 2022. Demir is second with 5,297. Yılmaz has led Kütahya every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
6,3131
ADNKS 2022
Per 1,000
10.92
Yılmaz
Population
580,7012
ADNKS 2022
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Kütahya, 2022

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 6,313 10.9 1
02 Demir 5,297 9.1 3
03 Öztürk 5,174 8.9 8
04 Çelik 4,671 8.0 4
05 Şahin 4,463 7.7 6
06 Kaya 4,281 7.4 2
07 Özdemir 4,279 7.4 10
08 Çetin 4,259 7.3 15
09 Aydın 3,982 6.9 9
10 Yıldız 3,903 6.7 5
11 Arslan 3,763 6.5 11
12 Yıldırım 3,684 6.3 7
13 Kahraman 3,281 5.7 –
14 Sarı 3,274 5.6 –
15 Çakır 3,256 5.6 24
16 Yavuz 2,951 5.1 23
17 Aslan 2,546 4.4 14
18 Kara 2,478 4.3 16
19 Yiğit 2,418 4.2 –
20 Doğan 2,315 4.0 12
21 Şen 2,296 4.0 –
22 Dönmez 2,235 3.8 –
23 Korkmaz 2,134 3.7 21
24 Koç 2,003 3.4 18
25 Bayram 1,984 3.4 –
26 Karaca 1,981 3.4 –
27 Acar 1,969 3.4 28
28 Can 1,931 3.3 27
29 Uslu 1,905 3.3 –
30 Kurt 1,893 3.3 17
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2022, 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 Kütahya’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 580,701 in 2022, about 10.9 in every 1,000 people in Kütahya are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 96,919 people, 16.7% of the population.1,2

Kütahya lies in the Aegean Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 0.5% between 2018 and 2022.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 576 k 578 k 580 k 20182019202020212022 577,941 579,257 576,688 578,640 580,701 TÜİK · ADNKS 576 k 578 k 580 k ’18’20’22 577,941 579,257 576,688 578,640 580,701
Population of Kütahya, 2018–2022 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • AfyonkarahisarAfyonkarahisar: also Yılmaz, with 9,884 people in 2022, 1.6 times as many as in Kütahya.
  • BalıkesirBalıkesir: also Yılmaz, with 14,008 people in 2022, 2.2 times as many as in Kütahya.
  • BilecikBilecik: also Yılmaz, with 3,432 people in 2022, 54% of the figure in Kütahya.
  • BursaBursa: also Yılmaz, with 45,665 people in 2022, 7.2 times as many as in Kütahya.
  • EskişehirEskişehir: also Yılmaz, with 11,995 people in 2022, 1.9 times as many as in Kütahya.
  • ManisaManisa: also Yılmaz, with 18,948 people in 2022, 3.0 times as many as in Kütahya.
  • UşakUşak: also Yılmaz, with 5,701 people in 2022, 90% of the figure in Kütahya.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Kütahya’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 6,272Demir 5,268Öztürk 5,175
2019 Yılmaz 6,421Demir 5,274Öztürk 5,201
2020 Yılmaz 6,365Demir 5,240Öztürk 5,186
2021 Yılmaz 6,330Demir 5,236Öztürk 5,191
2022 Yılmaz 6,313Demir 5,297Öztürk 5,174
2023 Yılmaz 6,288Demir 5,265Öztürk 5,125
2024 Yılmaz 6,280Demir 5,262Öztürk 5,081
2025 Yılmaz 6,301Demir 5,249Öztürk 5,093

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