Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

Province·Black Sea Region·Code 61

TÜİK · ADNKS 2023

The most common surnames in Trabzon 2023

As in Türkiye as a whole, the most common surname in Trabzon is Yılmaz: 18,771 people in 2023. Aydın is second with 12,974. Yılmaz has led Trabzon every year since 2018.1

First place
Yılmaz
People
18,7711
ADNKS 2023
Per 1,000
22.82
Yılmaz
Population
824,3522
ADNKS 2023
Surnames listed
301

The 30 most common surnames in Trabzon, 2023

RankSurnamePeoplePer 1,000National rank
01 Yılmaz 18,771 22.8 1
02 Aydın 12,974 15.7 9
03 Öztürk 12,053 14.6 8
04 Şahin 11,011 13.4 6
05 Uzun 6,306 7.6 –
06 Yıldız 6,037 7.3 5
07 Demir 6,012 7.3 3
08 Kurt 5,479 6.6 17
09 Yıldırım 5,138 6.2 7
10 Çelik 5,040 6.1 4
11 Yavuz 5,002 6.1 23
12 Kara 4,960 6.0 16
13 Çolak 4,951 6.0 –
14 Çakır 4,943 6.0 24
15 Kaya 4,931 6.0 2
16 Yazıcı 4,922 6.0 –
17 Bayraktar 4,853 5.9 –
18 Koç 4,788 5.8 18
19 Birinci 4,724 5.7 –
20 Küçük 4,453 5.4 –
21 Turan 4,183 5.1 –
22 Köse 4,111 5.0 –
23 Sağlam 4,054 4.9 –
24 Bulut 3,911 4.7 –
25 Özdemir 3,815 4.6 10
26 Usta 3,767 4.6 –
27 Bektaş 3,743 4.5 –
28 Arslan 3,738 4.5 11
29 Keleş 3,670 4.5 –
30 Kılıç 3,665 4.4 13
Source: TÜİK, ADNKS 2023, 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 Trabzon’s population?

With an ADNKS population of 824,352 in 2023, about 22.8 in every 1,000 people in Trabzon are called Yılmaz. The 30 listed surnames together cover 176,005 people, 21.4% of the population.1,2

Trabzon lies in the Black Sea Region. According to ADNKS its population grew by 2.0% between 2018 and 2023.2

TÜİK · ADNKS 810 k 820 k 201820192020202120222023 807,903 808,974 811,901 816,684 818,023 824,352 TÜİK · ADNKS 810 k 820 k ’18’20’22’23 807,903 808,974 811,901 816,684 818,023 824,352
Population of Trabzon, 2018–2023 Vertical axis does not start at zero.

Which surname leads in the neighbouring provinces?

  • BayburtBayburt: Bayram leads (860 people); Yılmaz, first in Trabzon, ranks 2nd there with 859.
  • GiresunGiresun: also Yılmaz, with 12,720 people in 2023, 68% of the figure in Trabzon.
  • GümüşhaneGümüşhane: also Yılmaz, with 3,253 people in 2023, 17% of the figure in Trabzon.
  • RizeRize: also Yılmaz, with 8,962 people in 2023, 48% of the figure in Trabzon.

Neighbours: land borders derived from Natural Earth boundaries.3

Has Trabzon’s top three changed over the years?

Year1.2.3.
2018 Yılmaz 18,406Aydın 12,863Öztürk 11,816
2019 Yılmaz 18,409Aydın 12,746Öztürk 11,825
2020 Yılmaz 18,527Aydın 12,816Öztürk 11,937
2021 Yılmaz 18,580Aydın 12,746Öztürk 11,813
2022 Yılmaz 18,603Aydın 12,734Öztürk 11,880
2023 Yılmaz 18,771Aydın 12,974Öztürk 12,053
2024 Yılmaz 18,762Aydın 12,890Öztürk 11,960
2025 Yılmaz 18,792Aydın 12,877Öztürk 11,900

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