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Turkish Girls’ Names Most Given: Top 30 for 2018–2025
The 30 girls' names with the highest combined totals in TÜİK's 2018 to 2025 girls' top-30 lists, plus the biggest rises and falls between 2018 and 2025.
This guide ranks the 30 girls’ names with the highest combined totals in TÜİK’s girls’ top-30 lists for 2018 through 2025. Each total is the sum of a name’s counts in the years it made the girls’ list, so it measures repeated appearances across eight years. It is not a count of every girl born in that period.
Zeynep, Defne and Asel at the top
Zeynep has the highest girls’ total at 77,893. She was first from 2018 to 2022, and her 14,183 in 2018 is the largest count on any girls’ list in these years. By 2025 she had moved to fourth.
Defne (54,335) was first in 2024 and second in 2025. Asel (52,200) was first in 2023. Elif (50,255) was second from 2018 to 2021, and it fell to 11th by 2025. Asya (40,400) reached fourth in 2021, and Zümra (36,319) rose from 17th in 2018 to 12th in 2025.
Biggest rises and falls, 2018 to 2025
Comparing rank in 2018 with rank in 2025 shows the largest moves among girls’ names that appeared in both years.
Rises:
- Alya: 20th to 1st, with 2,991 in 2018 and 8,739 in 2025
- Asya: 12th to 7th
- Zümra: 17th to 12th
- Ela: 22nd to 18th
- Asel: 7th to 5th
- Duru: 11th to 10th
Falls:
Defne moved from third in 2018 to second in 2025.
Names with fewer years
Azra, Ecrin and Ebrar each appear in seven years and are missing from the 2025 list. Gökçe appears in five years, from 2021 to 2025, and was third in 2025 with 7,582. Hiranur appears in four years, and Umay in three, with a best place of sixth for each. Its total of 10,999 is the lowest of the 30 girls’ names.
The girls’ top three in 2018 were Zeynep (14,183), Elif (9,893) and Defne (6,609). In 2025 it was Alya (8,739), Defne (7,716) and Gökçe (7,582), so Defne is the only name in both top threes.
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
- TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) – newborn-name lists, 2018–2025