Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Province·Marmara Region·Code 59

TÜİK · ADNKS 2020

The most common surnames in Tekirdağ 2020

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Tekirdağ is Yılmaz: 15,196 people in 2020. It leads by a wide margin, 1.6 times as many bearers as Kaya in second place. Yılmaz has led Tekirdağ every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
15,1961
ADNKS 2020
Per 1,000
14.12
Yılmaz
Population
1,081,0652
ADNKS 2020
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Tekirdağ, 2020

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 15,196 14.1 1
02 Kaya 9,293 8.6 2
03 Demir 9,186 8.5 3
04 Öztürk 8,520 7.9 8
05 Yıldız 8,386 7.8 5
06 Çelik 8,071 7.5 4
07 Şahin 7,023 6.5 6
08 Aydın 6,917 6.4 9
09 Arslan 6,237 5.8 11
10 Yıldırım 5,890 5.4 7
11 Özdemir 5,640 5.2 10
12 Çetin 4,733 4.4 15
13 Kılıç 4,427 4.1 13
14 Çakır 4,240 3.9 23
15 Özcan 4,072 3.8 25
16 Kurt 4,052 3.7 17
17 Güler 3,908 3.6 –
18 Doğan 3,872 3.6 12
19 Özkan 3,796 3.5 22
20 Can 3,663 3.4 27
21 Mutlu 3,651 3.4 –
22 Aslan 3,612 3.3 14
23 Şen 3,604 3.3 –
24 Çalışkan 3,565 3.3 –
25 Kara 3,488 3.2 16
26 Koç 3,371 3.1 18
27 Yavuz 3,359 3.1 24
28 Keskin 3,172 2.9 –
29 Özer 2,915 2.7 –
30 Bulut 2,896 2.7 –
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2020, 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 1,081,065 in 2020, about 14.1 in every 1,000 people in Tekirdağ are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 160,755 people, 14.9% of the population.1,2

Tekirdağ lies in the Marmara Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 5.0% between 2018 and 2020.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 1.04 m 1.06 m 1.08 m 201820192020 1,029,927 1,055,412 1,081,065 TÜİK · ADNKS 1.04 m 1.06 m 1.08 m ’18’20 1,029,927 1,055,412 1,081,065
Population of Tekirdağ, 2018–2020 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • ÇanakkaleÇanakkale: also Yılmaz, with 8,379 people in 2020, 55% of the figure in Tekirdağ.
  • EdirneEdirne: also Yılmaz, with 4,253 people in 2020, 28% of the figure in Tekirdağ.
  • IstanbulIstanbul: also Yılmaz, with 230,233 people in 2020, 15.2 times as many as in Tekirdağ.
  • KırklareliKırklareli: also Yılmaz, with 4,330 people in 2020, 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