Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Province·Marmara Region·Code 54

TÜİK · ADNKS 2022

The most common surnames in Sakarya 2022

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Sakarya is Yılmaz: 16,913 people in 2022. 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
16,9131
ADNKS 2022
Per 1,000
15.72
Yılmaz
Population
1,080,0802
ADNKS 2022
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Sakarya, 2022

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 16,913 15.7 1
02 Yıldız 8,956 8.3 5
03 Demir 8,876 8.2 3
04 Kaya 8,410 7.8 2
05 Yıldırım 8,039 7.4 7
06 Öztürk 7,893 7.3 8
07 Aydın 7,802 7.2 9
08 Çelik 7,684 7.1 4
09 Şahin 7,036 6.5 6
10 Kılıç 6,129 5.7 13
11 Özdemir 6,030 5.6 10
12 Arslan 5,523 5.1 11
13 Çetin 4,961 4.6 15
14 Keskin 4,415 4.1 –
15 Koç 4,267 4.0 18
16 Çakır 4,257 3.9 24
17 Kara 4,036 3.7 16
18 Sarı 3,973 3.7 –
19 Kurt 3,811 3.5 17
20 Özcan 3,657 3.4 25
21 Şen 3,559 3.3 –
22 Yavuz 3,542 3.3 23
23 Can 3,474 3.2 27
24 Köse 3,447 3.2 –
25 Özkan 3,406 3.2 22
26 Acar 3,325 3.1 28
27 Doğan 3,254 3.0 12
28 Turan 3,204 3.0 –
29 Avcı 3,054 2.8 –
30 Uzun 3,051 2.8 –
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2022, 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 1,080,080 in 2022, about 15.7 in every 1,000 people in Sakarya are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 165,984 people, 15.4% of the population.1,2

Sakarya lies in the Marmara Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 6.9% between 2018 and 2022.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 1 m 1.03 m 1.05 m 1.08 m 20182019202020212022 1,010,700 1,029,650 1,042,649 1,060,876 1,080,080 TÜİK · ADNKS 1 m 1.03 m 1.05 m 1.08 m ’18’20’22 1,010,700 1,029,650 1,042,649 1,060,876 1,080,080
Population of Sakarya, 2018–2022 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • BilecikBilecik: also Yılmaz, with 3,432 people in 2022, 20% of the figure in Sakarya.
  • BoluBolu: also Yılmaz, with 5,943 people in 2022, 35% of the figure in Sakarya.
  • BursaBursa: also Yılmaz, with 45,665 people in 2022, 2.7 times as many as in Sakarya.
  • DüzceDüzce: also Yılmaz, with 7,857 people in 2022, 46% of the figure in Sakarya.
  • KocaeliKocaeli: also Yılmaz, with 33,087 people in 2022, 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