Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

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TÜİK · ADNKS 2021

The most common surnames in Sakarya 2021

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Sakarya is Yılmaz: 16,575 people in 2021. It leads by a wide margin, 1.9 times as many bearers as Yıldız in second place. Yılmaz has led Sakarya every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
16,5751
ADNKS 2021
Per 1,000
15.62
Yılmaz
Population
1,060,8762
ADNKS 2021
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Sakarya, 2021

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 16,575 15.6 1
02 Yıldız 8,823 8.3 5
03 Demir 8,656 8.2 3
04 Kaya 8,294 7.8 2
05 Yıldırım 7,898 7.4 7
06 Öztürk 7,763 7.3 8
07 Aydın 7,618 7.2 9
08 Çelik 7,590 7.2 4
09 Şahin 6,842 6.4 6
10 Kılıç 5,983 5.6 13
11 Özdemir 5,944 5.6 10
12 Arslan 5,405 5.1 11
13 Çetin 4,894 4.6 15
14 Keskin 4,324 4.1 –
15 Koç 4,204 4.0 18
16 Çakır 4,144 3.9 23
17 Kara 3,984 3.8 16
18 Sarı 3,948 3.7 –
19 Kurt 3,771 3.6 17
20 Özcan 3,578 3.4 25
21 Şen 3,518 3.3 –
22 Yavuz 3,466 3.3 24
23 Can 3,427 3.2 27
24 Özkan 3,372 3.2 22
25 Köse 3,365 3.2 –
26 Acar 3,273 3.1 28
27 Doğan 3,165 3.0 12
28 Turan 3,148 3.0 –
29 Avcı 3,035 2.9 –
30 Duman 3,002 2.8 –
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 Sakarya’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 1,060,876 in 2021, about 15.6 in every 1,000 people in Sakarya are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 163,009 people, 15.4% of the population.1,2

Sakarya lies in the Marmara Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 5.0% between 2018 and 2021.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 1.02 m 1.04 m 1.06 m 2018201920202021 1,010,700 1,029,650 1,042,649 1,060,876 TÜİK · ADNKS 1.02 m 1.04 m 1.06 m ’18’20’21 1,010,700 1,029,650 1,042,649 1,060,876
Population of Sakarya, 2018–2021 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • BilecikBilecik: also Yılmaz, with 3,404 people in 2021, 21% of the figure in Sakarya.
  • BoluBolu: also Yılmaz, with 5,940 people in 2021, 36% of the figure in Sakarya.
  • BursaBursa: also Yılmaz, with 45,224 people in 2021, 2.7 times as many as in Sakarya.
  • DüzceDüzce: also Yılmaz, with 7,821 people in 2021, 47% of the figure in Sakarya.
  • KocaeliKocaeli: also Yılmaz, with 32,405 people in 2021, 2.0 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