Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Province·Black Sea Region·Code 52

TÜİK · ADNKS 2021

The most common surnames in Ordu 2021

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Ordu is Yılmaz: 15,899 people in 2021. Şahin is second with 10,644. Yılmaz has led Ordu every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
15,8991
ADNKS 2021
Per 1,000
20.92
Yılmaz
Population
760,8722
ADNKS 2021
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Ordu, 2021

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 15,899 20.9 1
02 Şahin 10,644 14.0 6
03 Öztürk 9,426 12.4 8
04 Aydın 7,561 9.9 9
05 Demir 7,224 9.5 3
06 Arslan 6,253 8.2 11
07 Çelik 5,306 7.0 4
08 Kaya 5,209 6.8 2
09 Yıldız 5,188 6.8 5
10 Kılıç 4,946 6.5 13
11 Özdemir 4,864 6.4 10
12 Keskin 4,405 5.8 –
13 Yıldırım 4,038 5.3 7
14 Aktaş 3,852 5.1 30
15 Çakır 3,733 4.9 23
16 Güler 3,524 4.6 –
17 Güney 3,461 4.5 –
18 Korkmaz 3,168 4.2 21
19 Baş 3,130 4.1 –
20 Aksu 2,963 3.9 –
21 Koç 2,944 3.9 18
22 Şen 2,782 3.7 –
23 Duman 2,747 3.6 –
24 Özcan 2,685 3.5 25
25 Güneş 2,657 3.5 29
26 Gümüş 2,631 3.5 –
27 Yüksel 2,623 3.4 –
28 Çakmak 2,549 3.4 –
29 Karayiğit 2,527 3.3 –
30 Genç 2,519 3.3 –
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 Ordu’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 760,872 in 2021, about 20.9 in every 1,000 people in Ordu are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 141,458 people, 18.6% of the population.1,2

Ordu lies in the Black Sea Region. According to ADNKS its population fell by 1.4% between 2018 and 2021.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 760 k 770 k 2018201920202021 771,932 754,198 761,400 760,872 TÜİK · ADNKS 760 k 770 k ’18’20’21 771,932 754,198 761,400 760,872
Population of Ordu, 2018–2021 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • GiresunGiresun: also Yılmaz, with 12,533 people in 2021, 79% of the figure in Ordu.
  • SamsunSamsun: also Yılmaz, with 24,706 people in 2021, 1.6 times as many as in Ordu.
  • SivasSivas: also Yılmaz, with 11,316 people in 2021, 71% of the figure in Ordu.
  • TokatTokat: also Yılmaz, with 13,141 people in 2021, 83% of the figure in Ordu.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Ordu’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 16,633Şahin 10,956Öztürk 9,627
2019 Yılmaz 15,877Şahin 10,521Öztürk 9,429
2020 Yılmaz 15,950Şahin 10,610Öztürk 9,461
2021 Yılmaz 15,899Şahin 10,644Öztürk 9,426
2022 Yılmaz 15,937Şahin 10,622Öztürk 9,458
2023 Yılmaz 16,345Şahin 10,792Öztürk 9,658
2024 Yılmaz 16,008Şahin 10,667Öztürk 9,590
2025 Yılmaz 15,948Şahin 10,549Öztürk 9,558

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