Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Province·Central Anatolia Region·Code 50

TÜİK · ADNKS 2025

The most common surnames in Nevşehir

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Nevşehir is Yılmaz: 4,774 people in 2025. Şahin is second with 3,860. Yılmaz has led Nevşehir every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
4,7741
ADNKS 2025
Per 1,000
14.92
Yılmaz
Population
320,1502
ADNKS 2025
Surnames listed
311

The 30 most common surnames in Nevşehir, 2025

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 4,774 14.9 1
02 Şahin 3,860 12.1 6
03 Demir 2,885 9.0 3
04 Öztürk 2,569 8.0 8
05 Kaya 2,515 7.9 2
06 Doğan 2,376 7.4 12
07 Özdemir 2,373 7.4 10
08 Çelik 2,105 6.6 4
09 Yıldırım 1,880 5.9 7
10 Yıldız 1,873 5.9 5
11 Aydın 1,754 5.5 9
12 Özer 1,535 4.8 –
13 Özcan 1,515 4.7 25
14 Kılıç 1,433 4.5 13
15 Ertaş 1,397 4.4 –
16 Yüksel 1,379 4.3 –
17 Ünal 1,301 4.1 –
18 Güven 1,293 4.0 –
19 Güneş 1,267 4.0 29
20 Şimşek 1,263 3.9 20
21 Arslan 1,172 3.7 11
22 Aslan 1,164 3.6 14
23 Çetin 1,135 3.5 15
24 Korkmaz 1,122 3.5 21
25 Karataş 1,121 3.5 –
26= Uçar 1,068 3.3 –
26= Yalçın 1,068 3.3 –
27 Açıkgöz 1,060 3.3 –
28 Ceylan 1,046 3.3 –
29 Çalışkan 1,040 3.2 –
30 Yücel 1,037 3.2 –
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 Nevşehir’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 320,150 in 2025, about 14.9 in every 1,000 people in Nevşehir are called Yılmaz. The 31 listed surnames together cover 53,380 people, 16.7% of the population.1,2

Nevşehir lies in the Central Anatolia Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 7.3% between 2018 and 2025.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 300 k 310 k 320 k 20182019202020212022202320242025 298,339 303,010 304,962 308,003 310,011 315,994 317,952 320,150 TÜİK · ADNKS 300 k 310 k 320 k ’18’20’22’24’25 298,339 303,010 304,962 308,003 310,011 315,994 317,952 320,150
Population of Nevşehir, 2018–2025 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • AksarayAksaray: Kılıç leads (4,340 people); Yılmaz, first in Nevşehir, ranks 4th there with 3,769.
  • KayseriKayseri: also Yılmaz, with 19,616 people in 2025, 4.1 times as many as in Nevşehir.
  • KırşehirKırşehir: also Yılmaz, with 4,505 people in 2025, 94% of the figure in Nevşehir.
  • NiğdeNiğde: also Yılmaz, with 5,303 people in 2025, 1.1 times as many as in Nevşehir.
  • YozgatYozgat: Şahin leads (7,409 people); Yılmaz, first in Nevşehir, ranks 2nd there with 6,654.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Nevşehir’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 4,445Şahin 3,670Demir 2,750
2019 Yılmaz 4,440Şahin 3,719Demir 2,741
2020 Yılmaz 4,469Şahin 3,730Demir 2,768
2021 Yılmaz 4,560Şahin 3,759Demir 2,805
2022 Yılmaz 4,620Şahin 3,752Demir 2,836
2023 Yılmaz 4,686Şahin 3,778Demir 2,921
2024 Yılmaz 4,685Şahin 3,848Demir 2,903
2025 Yılmaz 4,774Şahin 3,860Demir 2,885

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