Province·Central Anatolia Region·Code 58
TÜİK · ADNKS 2018The most common surnames in Sivas 2018
As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Sivas is Yılmaz: 11,458 people in 2018. Yıldırım is second with 10,777. Yılmaz has led Sivas every year since 2018.1
- First place
- Yılmaz
- Surnames listed
- 301
The 30 most common surnames in Sivas, 2018
| Rank | Surname | People | Per 1,000 | National rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Yılmaz | 11,458 | 17.7 | 1 |
| 02 | Yıldırım | 10,777 | 16.7 | 7 |
| 03 | Şahin | 10,260 | 15.9 | 6 |
| 04 | Yıldız | 10,257 | 15.9 | 5 |
| 05 | Kaya | 9,428 | 14.6 | 2 |
| 06 | Doğan | 7,997 | 12.4 | 12 |
| 07 | Öztürk | 6,712 | 10.4 | 8 |
| 08 | Arslan | 6,689 | 10.3 | 11 |
| 09 | Demir | 6,127 | 9.5 | 3 |
| 10 | Polat | 6,055 | 9.4 | 19 |
| 11 | Kılıç | 5,918 | 9.2 | 13 |
| 12 | Koç | 5,776 | 8.9 | 18 |
| 13 | Aydın | 4,846 | 7.5 | 9 |
| 14 | Özdemir | 4,794 | 7.4 | 10 |
| 15 | Şimşek | 4,510 | 7.0 | 20 |
| 16 | Çelik | 4,444 | 6.9 | 4 |
| 17 | Aslan | 3,223 | 5.0 | 14 |
| 18 | Bulut | 3,154 | 4.9 | – |
| 19 | Erdoğan | 3,074 | 4.8 | 26 |
| 20 | Aktaş | 2,928 | 4.5 | 30 |
| 21 | Çınar | 2,700 | 4.2 | – |
| 22 | Ateş | 2,461 | 3.8 | – |
| 23 | Kurt | 2,439 | 3.8 | 17 |
| 24 | Özkan | 2,334 | 3.6 | 22 |
| 25 | Işık | 2,332 | 3.6 | – |
| 26 | Çetin | 2,277 | 3.5 | 15 |
| 27 | Karataş | 2,248 | 3.5 | – |
| 28 | Korkmaz | 2,224 | 3.4 | 21 |
| 29 | Duman | 2,222 | 3.4 | – |
| 30 | Çakmak | 2,216 | 3.4 | – |
How do these counts compare with Sivas’s population?
With an ADNKS population of 646,608 in 2018, about 17.7 in every 1,000 people in Sivas are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 151,880 people, 23.5% of the population.1,2
Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?
- ErzincanErzincan: also Yılmaz, with 3,757 people in 2018, 33% of the figure in Sivas.
- GiresunGiresun: also Yılmaz, with 12,402 people in 2018, 1.1 times as many as in Sivas.
- KahramanmaraşKahramanmaraş: Demir leads (14,428 people); Yılmaz, first in Sivas, ranks 5th there with 10,137.
- KayseriKayseri: also Yılmaz, with 18,577 people in 2018, 1.6 times as many as in Sivas.
- MalatyaMalatya: Şahin leads (10,528 people); Yılmaz, first in Sivas, ranks 4th there with 9,232.
- OrduOrdu: also Yılmaz, with 16,633 people in 2018, 1.5 times as many as in Sivas.
- TokatTokat: also Yılmaz, with 13,425 people in 2018, 1.2 times as many as in Sivas.
- YozgatYozgat: Şahin leads (7,837 people); Yılmaz, first in Sivas, ranks 2nd there with 6,967.
Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3
Has Sivas’s top three changed over the years?
| Year | 1. | 2. | 3. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Yılmaz 11,458 | Yıldırım 10,777 | Şahin 10,260 |
| 2019 | Yılmaz 11,329 | Yıldırım 10,733 | Yıldız 10,195 |
| 2020 | Yılmaz 11,320 | Yıldırım 10,758 | Şahin 10,154 |
| 2021 | Yılmaz 11,316 | Yıldırım 10,778 | Şahin 10,109 |
| 2022 | Yılmaz 11,315 | Yıldırım 10,684 | Şahin 10,142 |
| 2023 | Yılmaz 11,466 | Yıldırım 10,959 | Şahin 10,418 |
| 2024 | Yılmaz 11,300 | Yıldırım 10,807 | Yıldız 10,135 |
| 2025 | Yılmaz 11,172 | Yıldırım 10,712 | Yıldız 10,085 |
Sources
- 1Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK) · ADNKS, TÜİK Nüfus İsim Portalı: En çok kullanılan soyisimler (ADNKS)
- 2Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK) · ADNKS, TÜİK ADNKS: Cinsiyete göre nüfus, Türkiye ve 81 il
- 3Natural Earth, Natural Earth: Admin-1 boundaries