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Turkish Names Most Given in 2018–2025: All 92 Ranked
All 92 Turkish names that appeared in TÜİK's 2018 to 2025 newborn lists, ranked by combined total, with how many years each name made a list.
This guide covers the full combined ranking built from TÜİK’s yearly newborn name lists for 2018 through 2025. The chart is labelled as a top 100, but only 92 different names appeared on any of the 16 lists (a top 30 for boys and one for girls in each of the eight years), so the ranking here holds 92 names. Each total is the sum of a name’s counts in the years it appeared, not a count of all babies.
From first to last
Zeynep leads with 77,893. At the other end, Sare has 2,066, from a single appearance at 30th place on the girls’ list in 2025. Years on the lists track the totals closely. Every name that appeared in all eight years totals at least 20,424, while every name that appeared in only one year totals 3,022 or less.
How many years each name appeared
Grouping the 92 names by the number of lists they made gives this spread. The groups add up to the full 92.
- Eight years: 33 names, with totals from 20,424 (İkra) to 77,893 (Zeynep).
- Seven years: 10 names, including Azra, Metehan and Ebrar.
- Six years: 7 names, including Göktuğ, Poyraz and Umut.
- Five years: 6 names, including Gökçe and Yağmur.
- Four years: 4 names, including Hiranur, Atlas and Öykü.
- Three years: 11 names, including Umay, Aslan and Melisa.
- Two years: 7 names, including İnci, Ayşe and Kumsal.
- One year: 14 names.
A long run is not the same as a high rank. Ali has eight years on the lists, but its best place is 11th. Mert also has eight years, with a best place of 24th.
Names that made one list
Fourteen names appeared on one list only, and their totals run from 2,066 to 3,022. Nisa has the highest total in that group and Sare the lowest. Eleven of the 14 are girls’ names, including Nisanur, Ceylin and İpek. The other three are boys’ names: Emirhan, Cihan and Yaman.
Ties are kept in the source lists, so three of the 16 lists run to 31 names. Those tie-driven extra places are included in the counts above.
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