Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Province·Marmara Region·Code 59

TÜİK · ADNKS 2025

The most common surnames in Tekirdağ

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Tekirdağ is Yılmaz: 16,440 people in 2025. Kaya is second with 11,069. Yılmaz has led Tekirdağ every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
16,4401
ADNKS 2025
Per 1,000
13.62
Yılmaz
Population
1,208,4412
ADNKS 2025
Surnames listed
311

The 30 most common surnames in Tekirdağ, 2025

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 16,440 13.6 1
02 Kaya 11,069 9.2 2
03 Demir 10,706 8.9 3
04 Yıldız 9,713 8.0 5
05 Çelik 9,444 7.8 4
06 Öztürk 9,248 7.7 8
07 Şahin 8,100 6.7 6
08 Aydın 7,827 6.5 9
09 Arslan 7,198 6.0 11
10 Yıldırım 6,894 5.7 7
11 Özdemir 6,351 5.3 10
12 Çetin 5,265 4.4 15
13 Kılıç 5,065 4.2 13
14 Doğan 4,594 3.8 12
15 Çakır 4,501 3.7 24
16 Kurt 4,415 3.7 17
17 Özcan 4,267 3.5 25
18 Güler 4,265 3.5 –
19 Aslan 4,254 3.5 14
20 Özkan 4,057 3.4 22
21 Can 4,036 3.3 27
22 Kara 4,002 3.3 16
23= Koç 3,754 3.1 18
23= Mutlu 3,754 3.1 –
24 Çalışkan 3,743 3.1 –
25 Şen 3,734 3.1 –
26 Yavuz 3,505 2.9 23
27 Keskin 3,481 2.9 –
28 Bulut 3,215 2.7 –
29 Özer 3,211 2.7 –
30 Korkmaz 3,014 2.5 21
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 Tekirdağ’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 1,208,441 in 2025, about 13.6 in every 1,000 people in Tekirdağ are called Yılmaz. The 31 listed surnames together cover 183,122 people, 15.2% of the population.1,2

Tekirdağ lies in the Marmara Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 17.3% between 2018 and 2025.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 1 m 1.1 m 1.2 m 20182019202020212022202320242025 1,029,927 1,055,412 1,081,065 1,113,400 1,142,451 1,167,059 1,187,162 1,208,441 TÜİK · ADNKS 1 m 1.1 m 1.2 m ’18’20’22’24’25 1,029,927 1,055,412 1,081,065 1,113,400 1,142,451 1,167,059 1,187,162 1,208,441
Population of Tekirdağ, 2018–2025 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • ÇanakkaleÇanakkale: also Yılmaz, with 8,734 people in 2025, 53% of the figure in Tekirdağ.
  • EdirneEdirne: also Yılmaz, with 4,453 people in 2025, 27% of the figure in Tekirdağ.
  • IstanbulIstanbul: also Yılmaz, with 230,115 people in 2025, 14.0 times as many as in Tekirdağ.
  • KırklareliKırklareli: also Yılmaz, with 4,599 people in 2025, 28% of the figure in Tekirdağ.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Tekirdağ’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 14,249Demir 8,664Kaya 8,657
2019 Yılmaz 14,721Kaya 8,950Demir 8,900
2020 Yılmaz 15,196Kaya 9,293Demir 9,186
2021 Yılmaz 15,581Kaya 9,733Demir 9,524
2022 Yılmaz 15,905Kaya 10,053Demir 9,847
2023 Yılmaz 16,134Kaya 10,416Demir 10,288
2024 Yılmaz 16,304Kaya 10,702Demir 10,485
2025 Yılmaz 16,440Kaya 11,069Demir 10,706

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