Turkish Boys’ Names Most Given: Top 30 for 2018–2025

This guide ranks the 30 boys’ names with the highest combined totals in TÜİK’s boys’ top-30 lists for 2018 through 2025. The lists cover eight years, and a name can appear at most once in each year. So a total shows repeated appearances on the lists, not how many boys were given that name in total.

Yusuf and Alparslan at the top

Yusuf has the highest boys’ total at 54,323. It was first in 2018 through 2021, and its count of 9,583 in 2018 is the largest on any boys’ list in these years. By 2025 Yusuf had dropped to fourth.

Alparslan is second with 49,757. It was first from 2022 to 2025, and it started 2018 in 30th place. In 2025 it topped the list with 7,509, followed by Göktuğ with 6,029 and Metehan with 5,379.

Below them, Eymen (42,387) was second in 2018 and 2019, and Ömer Asaf (42,124) was third in 2018. Miraç (41,852) reached second in 2020, and Kerem (32,170) was fifth in 2025.

Biggest rises and falls, 2018 to 2025

Comparing rank in 2018 with rank in 2025 shows the largest moves among boys’ names that appeared in both years.

Rises:

• Alparslan: 30th to 1st
• Kerem: 21st to 5th
• Poyraz: 29th to 14th
• Aras: 23rd to 10th
• Alperen: 24th to 15th

Falls:

• Emir: 9th to 30th
• Mehmet: 11th to 29th
• Ahmet: 8th to 24th
• Eymen: 2nd to 17th
• Mustafa: 6th to 21st
• Ali Asaf: 7th to 19th

Mert held 26th place in both years.

The 2018 boys’ top three were Yusuf (9,583), Eymen (8,301) and Ömer Asaf (7,150). The 2025 top three were Alparslan (7,509), Göktuğ (6,029) and Metehan (5,379). None of the 2018 leaders appears in the 2025 top three.

Names with fewer years

Atlas (12,847) appears in four years, from 2022 to 2025, and its best place is ninth. Göktuğ is listed in six years and was second in 2024 and 2025. Metehan, Muhammed, Muhammed Ali, Miran and Emir each appear in seven of the eight years, so each total comes from one fewer list.

Ties are kept, so the 2020 and 2023 boys’ lists each run to 31 names.

How this data is collected

TÜİK builds these figures from its Address-Based Population Registration System. Its yearly newborn name lists show the top 30 names for each gender, based on births in the selected year. This guide reports the counts as TÜİK published them, without adjustment. Each combined total is a plain sum of the published counts for one name, so it describes appearances on the published lists rather than the full number of births in those years.

Where the data comes from

The yearly newborn name lists are published by TÜİK at TÜİK newborn name statistics. Every figure in this guide comes from those lists for 2018 to 2025.

Sources

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