Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Province·Marmara Region·Code 54

TÜİK · ADNKS 2025

The most common surnames in Sakarya

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Sakarya is Yılmaz: 17,597 people in 2025. It leads by a wide margin, 1.9 times as many bearers as Demir in second place. Yılmaz has led Sakarya every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
17,5971
ADNKS 2025
Per 1,000
15.72
Yılmaz
Population
1,123,6932
ADNKS 2025
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Sakarya, 2025

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 17,597 15.7 1
02 Demir 9,437 8.4 3
03 Yıldız 9,317 8.3 5
04 Kaya 8,913 7.9 2
05 Yıldırım 8,425 7.5 7
06 Öztürk 8,232 7.3 8
07 Aydın 8,226 7.3 9
08 Çelik 8,014 7.1 4
09 Şahin 7,394 6.6 6
10 Kılıç 6,313 5.6 13
11 Özdemir 6,308 5.6 10
12 Arslan 5,829 5.2 11
13 Çetin 5,091 4.5 15
14 Keskin 4,575 4.1 –
15 Koç 4,503 4.0 18
16 Çakır 4,401 3.9 24
17 Kara 4,207 3.7 16
18 Sarı 4,102 3.7 –
19 Kurt 3,978 3.5 17
20 Özcan 3,756 3.3 25
21 Yavuz 3,667 3.3 23
22 Şen 3,638 3.2 –
23 Can 3,583 3.2 27
24 Köse 3,534 3.1 –
25 Acar 3,517 3.1 28
26 Özkan 3,489 3.1 22
27 Doğan 3,420 3.0 12
28 Turan 3,358 3.0 –
29 Uzun 3,151 2.8 –
30 Duman 3,120 2.8 –
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 Sakarya’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 1,123,693 in 2025, about 15.7 in every 1,000 people in Sakarya are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 173,095 people, 15.4% of the population.1,2

Sakarya lies in the Marmara Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 11.2% between 2018 and 2025.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 1 m 1.05 m 1.1 m 20182019202020212022202320242025 1,010,700 1,029,650 1,042,649 1,060,876 1,080,080 1,098,115 1,110,735 1,123,693 TÜİK · ADNKS 1 m 1.05 m 1.1 m ’18’20’22’24’25 1,010,700 1,029,650 1,042,649 1,060,876 1,080,080 1,098,115 1,110,735 1,123,693
Population of Sakarya, 2018–2025 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • BilecikBilecik: also Yılmaz, with 3,322 people in 2025, 19% of the figure in Sakarya.
  • BoluBolu: also Yılmaz, with 6,106 people in 2025, 35% of the figure in Sakarya.
  • BursaBursa: also Yılmaz, with 46,316 people in 2025, 2.6 times as many as in Sakarya.
  • DüzceDüzce: also Yılmaz, with 8,034 people in 2025, 46% of the figure in Sakarya.
  • KocaeliKocaeli: also Yılmaz, with 33,865 people in 2025, 1.9 times as many as in Sakarya.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Sakarya’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 15,984Yıldız 8,484Demir 8,157
2019 Yılmaz 16,247Yıldız 8,613Demir 8,305
2020 Yılmaz 16,379Yıldız 8,671Demir 8,424
2021 Yılmaz 16,575Yıldız 8,823Demir 8,656
2022 Yılmaz 16,913Yıldız 8,956Demir 8,876
2023 Yılmaz 17,110Yıldız 9,192Demir 9,183
2024 Yılmaz 17,390Yıldız 9,309Demir 9,273
2025 Yılmaz 17,597Demir 9,437Yıldız 9,317

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