Province·Central Anatolia Region·Code 58

TÜİK · ADNKS 2019

The most common surnames in Sivas 2019

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Sivas is Yılmaz: 11,329 people in 2019. Yıldırım is second with 10,733. Yılmaz has led Sivas every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
11,3291
ADNKS 2019
Per 1,000
17.72
Yılmaz
Population
638,9562
ADNKS 2019
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Sivas, 2019

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 11,329 17.7 1
02 Yıldırım 10,733 16.8 7
03 Yıldız 10,195 16.0 5
04 Şahin 10,188 15.9 6
05 Kaya 9,254 14.5 2
06 Doğan 7,931 12.4 12
07 Öztürk 6,665 10.4 8
08 Arslan 6,572 10.3 11
09 Demir 6,049 9.5 3
10 Polat 6,040 9.5 19
11 Kılıç 5,853 9.2 13
12 Koç 5,709 8.9 18
13 Aydın 4,855 7.6 9
14 Özdemir 4,755 7.4 10
15 Şimşek 4,511 7.1 20
16 Çelik 4,361 6.8 4
17 Aslan 3,171 5.0 14
18 Bulut 3,094 4.8 –
19 Erdoğan 3,008 4.7 26
20 Aktaş 2,862 4.5 30
21 Çınar 2,688 4.2 –
22 Kurt 2,427 3.8 17
23 Ateş 2,413 3.8 –
24 Işık 2,319 3.6 –
25 Özkan 2,273 3.6 22
26 Çetin 2,255 3.5 15
27 Duman 2,220 3.5 –
28 Karataş 2,204 3.4 –
29 Korkmaz 2,186 3.4 21
30 Çakmak 2,147 3.4 –
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2019, 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 Sivas’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 638,956 in 2019, about 17.7 in every 1,000 people in Sivas are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 150,267 people, 23.5% of the population.1,2

Sivas lies in the Central Anatolia Region. According to ADNKS its population fell by 1.2% between 2018 and 2019.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 640 k 645 k 20182019 646,608 638,956 TÜİK · ADNKS 640 k 645 k ’18’19 646,608 638,956
Population of Sivas, 2018–2019 Vertical axis does not start at zero.
Population of Sivas, 2018–2019
2018646,608
2019638,956

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • ErzincanErzincan: also Yılmaz, with 3,704 people in 2019, 33% of the figure in Sivas.
  • GiresunGiresun: also Yılmaz, with 12,367 people in 2019, 1.1 times as many as in Sivas.
  • KahramanmaraşKahramanmaraş: Demir leads (14,517 people); Yılmaz, first in Sivas, ranks 5th there with 10,216.
  • KayseriKayseri: also Yılmaz, with 18,770 people in 2019, 1.7 times as many as in Sivas.
  • MalatyaMalatya: Şahin leads (10,511 people); Yılmaz, first in Sivas, ranks 4th there with 9,143.
  • OrduOrdu: also Yılmaz, with 15,877 people in 2019, 1.4 times as many as in Sivas.
  • TokatTokat: also Yılmaz, with 13,410 people in 2019, 1.2 times as many as in Sivas.
  • YozgatYozgat: Şahin leads (7,752 people); Yılmaz, first in Sivas, ranks 2nd there with 6,959.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Sivas’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 11,458Yıldırım 10,777Şahin 10,260
2019 Yılmaz 11,329Yıldırım 10,733Yıldız 10,195
2020 Yılmaz 11,320Yıldırım 10,758Şahin 10,154
2021 Yılmaz 11,316Yıldırım 10,778Şahin 10,109
2022 Yılmaz 11,315Yıldırım 10,684Şahin 10,142
2023 Yılmaz 11,466Yıldırım 10,959Şahin 10,418
2024 Yılmaz 11,300Yıldırım 10,807Yıldız 10,135
2025 Yılmaz 11,172Yıldırım 10,712Yıldız 10,085

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