Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Province·Black Sea Region·Code 55

TÜİK · ADNKS 2025

The most common surnames in Samsun

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Samsun is Yılmaz: 25,396 people in 2025. Şahin is second with 18,758. Yılmaz has led Samsun every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
25,3961
ADNKS 2025
Per 1,000
18.22
Yılmaz
Population
1,392,4032
ADNKS 2025
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Samsun, 2025

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 25,396 18.2 1
02 Şahin 18,758 13.5 6
03 Kaya 16,690 12.0 2
04 Aydın 14,540 10.4 9
05 Öztürk 14,294 10.3 8
06 Demir 13,040 9.4 3
07 Arslan 11,894 8.5 11
08 Çakır 11,069 7.9 24
09 Keskin 10,514 7.6 –
10 Yıldız 10,212 7.3 5
11 Çelik 10,022 7.2 4
12 Yıldırım 8,830 6.3 7
13 Özdemir 8,574 6.2 10
14 Kılıç 7,830 5.6 13
15 Kurt 7,321 5.3 17
16 Sağlam 6,209 4.5 –
17 Kara 5,972 4.3 16
18 Şen 5,820 4.2 –
19 Koç 5,712 4.1 18
20 Köse 5,693 4.1 –
21 Uzun 5,519 4.0 –
22 Baş 5,291 3.8 –
23 Aslan 5,222 3.8 14
24 Yavuz 4,960 3.6 23
25 Yüksel 4,910 3.5 –
26 Doğan 4,713 3.4 12
27 Korkmaz 4,514 3.2 21
28 Keleş 4,107 2.9 –
29 Erdoğan 4,091 2.9 26
30 Şimşek 4,079 2.9 20
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 Samsun’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 1,392,403 in 2025, about 18.2 in every 1,000 people in Samsun are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 265,796 people, 19.1% of the population.1,2

Samsun lies in the Black Sea Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 4.2% between 2018 and 2025.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 1.34 m 1.36 m 1.38 m 1.4 m 20182019202020212022202320242025 1,335,716 1,348,542 1,356,079 1,371,274 1,368,488 1,377,546 1,382,376 1,392,403 TÜİK · ADNKS 1.34 m 1.36 m 1.38 m 1.4 m ’18’20’22’24’25 1,335,716 1,348,542 1,356,079 1,371,274 1,368,488 1,377,546 1,382,376 1,392,403
Population of Samsun, 2018–2025 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • AmasyaAmasya: Şahin leads (5,011 people); Yılmaz, first in Samsun, ranks 2nd there with 4,151.
  • ÇorumÇorum: Şahin leads (7,613 people); Yılmaz, first in Samsun, ranks 2nd there with 5,834.
  • OrduOrdu: also Yılmaz, with 15,948 people in 2025, 63% of the figure in Samsun.
  • SinopSinop: also Yılmaz, with 4,184 people in 2025, 16% of the figure in Samsun.
  • TokatTokat: also Yılmaz, with 13,469 people in 2025, 53% of the figure in Samsun.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Samsun’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 24,419Şahin 17,915Kaya 16,066
2019 Yılmaz 24,570Şahin 17,856Kaya 16,040
2020 Yılmaz 24,787Şahin 18,154Kaya 16,162
2021 Yılmaz 24,706Şahin 18,263Kaya 16,256
2022 Yılmaz 24,847Şahin 18,310Kaya 16,309
2023 Yılmaz 25,182Şahin 18,616Kaya 16,563
2024 Yılmaz 25,237Şahin 18,656Kaya 16,659
2025 Yılmaz 25,396Şahin 18,758Kaya 16,690

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