Turkish Baby Names That Fell Most in the Top 30, 2018-2025

Emir had the largest fall among names that appear in both the 2018 and 2025 lists, dropping from 9th among boys to 30th, a loss of 21 places. Eymen and Elif each started 2018 in second place among their gender, and by 2025 they stood 17th and 11th. The chart below shows the 15 names that dropped most in TÜİK’s national top-30 lists.

How the ranking works

The method matches the climbers comparison, read in the other direction:

• Rank is a name’s published position in a year’s top-30 list, where 1 is the most-given name for that gender.
• Places dropped is the 2025 rank minus the 2018 rank. A higher number means a bigger fall.

A name is only in a list while it is in that year’s top 30. This post compares only names that appear in both the 2018 and the 2025 lists. A name that left the top 30 before 2025 has no 2025 position, so it cannot be given a drop figure, however high it stood in 2018.

The biggest drops

• [Emir](/names/emir/) (boys): 9th to 30th, 21 places. The published count fell from 4,726 in 2018 to 1,984 in 2025.
• [Mehmet](/names/mehmet/) (boys): 11th to 29th, 18 places.
• [Ahmet](/names/ahmet/) (boys): 8th to 24th, 16 places.
• [Eymen](/names/eymen/) (boys): 2nd to 17th, 15 places. The count fell from 8,301 to 2,799.
• [Mustafa](/names/mustafa/) (boys): 6th to 21st, 15 places.
• [Eylül](/names/eylul/) (girls): 5th to 20th, 15 places.
• Ali Asaf (boys): 7th to 19th, 12 places.
• [Nehir](/names/nehir/) (girls): 14th to 26th, 12 places.
• [Meryem](/names/meryem/) (girls): 8th to 19th, 11 places.
• [Ali](/names/ali/) (boys): 12th to 22nd, 10 places.
• [Hamza](/names/hamza/) (boys): 15th to 25th, 10 places.
• [Elif](/names/elif/) (girls): 2nd to 11th, 9 places. The count fell from 9,893 in 2018 to 3,713 in 2025.
• [Miraç](/names/mirac/) (boys): 4th to 11th, 7 places.
• [Yiğit](/names/yigit/) (boys): 10th to 16th, 6 places.
• [Ayaz](/names/ayaz/) (boys): 18th to 23rd, 5 places.

Drops the chart cannot rank

Several names from the 2018 top 30 are missing from the 2025 list entirely. Among them are Ebrar (4th for girls in 2018), Hiranur (6th), Zehra (9th) and Azra (13th). Because they have no 2025 position, they are left out of the chart. A reader looking only at the chart would miss these falls, so the chart is a partial picture of who lost ground.

What a drop means

A drop means a name lost position in the list. It does not by itself show that fewer children received the name, since the published counts are the only measure of that. A name can also slip because other names moved above it, so a fall in rank is not the same as a fall in the number of families who chose it.

Where the data comes from

The rankings come from TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute), which publishes newborn name statistics for each year at TÜİK newborn name lists. The data covers only the top 30 names for boys and for girls in each year, not every birth. It cannot show how many babies received a name outside those 30 places, why families chose a name, or how names differ by region. Two single years also cannot show the path between them, so a fall may have been steady or may have happened in one step.

Sources

1. TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) – newborn-name lists, 2018–2025