Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Province·Eastern Anatolia Region·Code 44

TÜİK · ADNKS 2025

The most common surnames in Malatya

The most common surname in Malatya is Şahin (9,891 people, 2025). Yılmaz, first nationally, is 4th in Malatya. It is a close race: Doğan in second place is only 124 people behind. The lead has changed hands: in 2020 the most common surname here was Doğan.1

First place
Şahin
People
9,8911
ADNKS 2025
Per 1,000
13.12
Şahin
Population
755,8542
ADNKS 2025
Surnames listed
311

The 30 most common surnames in Malatya, 2025

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Şahin 9,891 13.1 6
02 Doğan 9,767 12.9 12
03 Kaya 9,455 12.5 2
04 Yılmaz 8,452 11.2 1
05 Yıldırım 7,633 10.1 7
06 Özdemir 7,029 9.3 10
07 Demir 6,799 9.0 3
08 Aslan 6,501 8.6 14
09 Çelik 5,868 7.8 4
10 Kılıç 5,226 6.9 13
11 Korkmaz 4,398 5.8 21
12 Yıldız 3,830 5.1 5
13 Polat 3,788 5.0 19
14 Öztürk 3,418 4.5 8
15 Yiğit 3,366 4.5 –
16 Arslan 3,340 4.4 11
17 Koç 3,298 4.4 18
18 Güler 3,236 4.3 –
19 Aydın 3,144 4.2 9
20 Fırat 2,743 3.6 –
21 Karakuş 2,742 3.6 –
22= Karaca 2,612 3.5 –
22= Özcan 2,612 3.5 25
23 Özer 2,555 3.4 –
24 Gürbüz 2,382 3.2 –
25 Güneş 2,379 3.1 29
26 Bulut 2,330 3.1 –
27 Çetin 2,292 3.0 15
28 Karaman 2,278 3.0 –
29 Bozkurt 2,237 3.0 –
30 Gül 2,206 2.9 –
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 Malatya’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 755,854 in 2025, about 13.1 in every 1,000 people in Malatya are called Şahin. The 31 listed surnames together cover 137,807 people, 18.2% of the population.1,2

Malatya lies in the Eastern Anatolia Region. According to ADNKS its population fell by 5.2% between 2018 and 2025.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 750 k 775 k 800 k 825 k 20182019202020212022202320242025 797,036 800,165 806,156 808,692 812,580 742,725 750,491 755,854 TÜİK · ADNKS 750 k 775 k 800 k 825 k ’18’20’22’24’25 797,036 800,165 806,156 808,692 812,580 742,725 750,491 755,854
Population of Malatya, 2018–2025 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • AdıyamanAdıyaman: Doğan leads (8,594 people); Şahin, first in Malatya, ranks 4th there with 8,090.
  • DiyarbakırDiyarbakır: Kaya leads (35,014 people); Şahin, first in Malatya, ranks 28th there with 6,582.
  • ElazığElazığ: Yıldırım leads (12,502 people); Şahin, first in Malatya, ranks 16th there with 3,476.
  • ErzincanErzincan: Yılmaz leads (3,714 people); Şahin, first in Malatya, ranks 9th there with 1,805.
  • KahramanmaraşKahramanmaraş: Demir leads (14,767 people); Şahin, first in Malatya, ranks 8th there with 7,706.
  • SivasSivas: Yılmaz leads (11,172 people); Şahin, first in Malatya, ranks 4th there with 9,924.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Malatya’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Şahin 10,528Doğan 10,501Kaya 9,799
2019 Şahin 10,511Doğan 10,456Kaya 9,833
2020 Doğan 10,589Şahin 10,506Kaya 9,894
2021 Doğan 10,638Şahin 10,461Kaya 10,017
2022 Doğan 10,624Şahin 10,504Kaya 10,102
2023 Şahin 9,813Doğan 9,641Kaya 9,357
2024 Şahin 9,912Doğan 9,759Kaya 9,381
2025 Şahin 9,891Doğan 9,767Kaya 9,455

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