Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Province·Aegean Region·Code 45

TÜİK · ADNKS 2018

The most common surnames in Manisa 2018

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Manisa is Yılmaz: 18,471 people in 2018. Kaya is second with 13,861. Yılmaz has led Manisa every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
18,4711
ADNKS 2018
Per 1,000
12.92
Yılmaz
Population
1,429,6432
ADNKS 2018
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Manisa, 2018

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 18,471 12.9 1
02 Kaya 13,861 9.7 2
03 Demir 12,228 8.6 3
04 Çelik 11,421 8.0 4
05 Yıldırım 10,308 7.2 7
06 Özdemir 10,000 7.0 10
07 Yıldız 9,781 6.8 5
08 Çetin 9,229 6.5 15
09 Aydın 8,914 6.2 9
10 Şahin 8,230 5.8 6
11 Öztürk 7,182 5.0 8
12 Arslan 6,486 4.5 11
13 Çakır 5,223 3.7 23
14 Aslan 5,222 3.7 14
15 Doğan 5,187 3.6 12
16 Uysal 5,172 3.6 –
17 Şen 5,160 3.6 –
18 Özcan 5,069 3.5 24
19 Kurt 4,772 3.3 17
20 Acar 4,694 3.3 28
21 Özkan 4,412 3.1 22
22 Korkmaz 4,380 3.1 21
23 Can 4,338 3.0 27
24 Kahraman 4,120 2.9 –
25 Kara 4,117 2.9 16
26 Sarı 4,073 2.8 –
27 Koç 4,050 2.8 18
28 Çoban 4,047 2.8 –
29 Kılıç 3,991 2.8 13
30 Aktaş 3,964 2.8 30
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2018, 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 Manisa’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 1,429,643 in 2018, about 12.9 in every 1,000 people in Manisa are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 208,102 people, 14.6% of the population.1,2

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • AydınAydın: also Yılmaz, with 11,922 people in 2018, 65% of the figure in Manisa.
  • BalıkesirBalıkesir: also Yılmaz, with 13,793 people in 2018, 75% of the figure in Manisa.
  • DenizliDenizli: also Yılmaz, with 12,364 people in 2018, 67% of the figure in Manisa.
  • IzmirIzmir: also Yılmaz, with 51,793 people in 2018, 2.8 times as many as in Manisa.
  • KütahyaKütahya: also Yılmaz, with 6,272 people in 2018, 34% of the figure in Manisa.
  • UşakUşak: also Yılmaz, with 5,578 people in 2018, 30% of the figure in Manisa.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Manisa’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 18,471Kaya 13,861Demir 12,228
2019 Yılmaz 18,604Kaya 14,000Demir 12,324
2020 Yılmaz 18,724Kaya 14,114Demir 12,487
2021 Yılmaz 18,824Kaya 14,180Demir 12,475
2022 Yılmaz 18,948Kaya 14,436Demir 12,653
2023 Yılmaz 19,005Kaya 14,463Demir 12,794
2024 Yılmaz 19,039Kaya 14,555Demir 12,859
2025 Yılmaz 18,997Kaya 14,621Demir 12,868

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