Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Province·Marmara Region·Code 59

TÜİK · ADNKS 2022

The most common surnames in Tekirdağ 2022

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Tekirdağ is Yılmaz: 15,905 people in 2022. Kaya is second with 10,053. Yılmaz has led Tekirdağ every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
15,9051
ADNKS 2022
Per 1,000
13.92
Yılmaz
Population
1,142,4512
ADNKS 2022
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Tekirdağ, 2022

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 15,905 13.9 1
02 Kaya 10,053 8.8 2
03 Demir 9,847 8.6 3
04 Yıldız 8,940 7.8 5
05 Öztürk 8,854 7.8 8
06 Çelik 8,723 7.6 4
07 Şahin 7,473 6.5 6
08 Aydın 7,387 6.5 9
09 Arslan 6,624 5.8 11
10 Yıldırım 6,347 5.6 7
11 Özdemir 5,979 5.2 10
12 Çetin 4,947 4.3 15
13 Kılıç 4,801 4.2 13
14 Çakır 4,436 3.9 24
15 Kurt 4,256 3.7 17
16 Doğan 4,178 3.7 12
17 Özcan 4,120 3.6 25
18 Güler 4,088 3.6 –
19 Aslan 3,962 3.5 14
20 Özkan 3,905 3.4 22
21 Can 3,858 3.4 27
22 Mutlu 3,723 3.3 –
23 Çalışkan 3,694 3.2 –
24 Şen 3,689 3.2 –
25 Kara 3,669 3.2 16
26 Koç 3,537 3.1 18
27 Yavuz 3,447 3.0 23
28 Keskin 3,316 2.9 –
29 Bulut 3,040 2.7 –
30 Özer 3,029 2.7 –
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2022, 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 1,142,451 in 2022, about 13.9 in every 1,000 people in Tekirdağ are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 169,827 people, 14.9% of the population.1,2

Tekirdağ lies in the Marmara Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 10.9% between 2018 and 2022.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 1.05 m 1.1 m 1.15 m 20182019202020212022 1,029,927 1,055,412 1,081,065 1,113,400 1,142,451 TÜİK · ADNKS 1.05 m 1.1 m 1.15 m ’18’20’22 1,029,927 1,055,412 1,081,065 1,113,400 1,142,451
Population of Tekirdağ, 2018–2022 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • ÇanakkaleÇanakkale: also Yılmaz, with 8,621 people in 2022, 54% of the figure in Tekirdağ.
  • EdirneEdirne: also Yılmaz, with 4,366 people in 2022, 27% of the figure in Tekirdağ.
  • IstanbulIstanbul: also Yılmaz, with 231,726 people in 2022, 14.6 times as many as in Tekirdağ.
  • KırklareliKırklareli: also Yılmaz, with 4,439 people in 2022, 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