Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

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TÜİK · ADNKS 2021

The most common surnames in Tekirdağ 2021

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Tekirdağ is Yılmaz: 15,581 people in 2021. 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
15,5811
ADNKS 2021
Per 1,000
14.02
Yılmaz
Population
1,113,4002
ADNKS 2021
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Tekirdağ, 2021

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 15,581 14.0 1
02 Kaya 9,733 8.7 2
03 Demir 9,524 8.6 3
04 Yıldız 8,729 7.8 5
05 Öztürk 8,678 7.8 8
06 Çelik 8,347 7.5 4
07 Şahin 7,236 6.5 6
08 Aydın 7,191 6.5 9
09 Arslan 6,445 5.8 11
10 Yıldırım 6,136 5.5 7
11 Özdemir 5,759 5.2 10
12 Çetin 4,839 4.3 15
13 Kılıç 4,663 4.2 13
14 Çakır 4,332 3.9 23
15 Kurt 4,149 3.7 17
16 Özcan 4,073 3.7 25
17 Doğan 4,068 3.7 12
18 Güler 4,012 3.6 –
19 Özkan 3,845 3.5 22
20 Aslan 3,838 3.4 14
21 Can 3,780 3.4 27
22 Mutlu 3,721 3.3 –
23 Çalışkan 3,654 3.3 –
24 Şen 3,647 3.3 –
25 Kara 3,617 3.2 16
26 Koç 3,453 3.1 18
27 Yavuz 3,370 3.0 24
28 Keskin 3,245 2.9 –
29 Bulut 2,999 2.7 –
30 Özer 2,961 2.7 –
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2021, 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 1,113,400 in 2021, about 14.0 in every 1,000 people in Tekirdağ are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 165,625 people, 14.9% of the population.1,2

Tekirdağ lies in the Marmara Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 8.1% between 2018 and 2021.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 1.05 m 1.1 m 2018201920202021 1,029,927 1,055,412 1,081,065 1,113,400 TÜİK · ADNKS 1.05 m 1.1 m ’18’20’21 1,029,927 1,055,412 1,081,065 1,113,400
Population of Tekirdağ, 2018–2021 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • ÇanakkaleÇanakkale: also Yılmaz, with 8,591 people in 2021, 55% of the figure in Tekirdağ.
  • EdirneEdirne: also Yılmaz, with 4,364 people in 2021, 28% of the figure in Tekirdağ.
  • IstanbulIstanbul: also Yılmaz, with 231,085 people in 2021, 14.8 times as many as in Tekirdağ.
  • KırklareliKırklareli: also Yılmaz, with 4,409 people in 2021, 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