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Top 25 Turkish Names Most Given in 2018–2025
The top 25 Turkish names by combined total in TÜİK's 2018 to 2025 newborn lists, including the six names that reached first place in at least one year.
The top 25 of TÜİK’s combined ranking for 2018 to 2025 mixes two kinds of names: names that led one of the yearly lists, and names that stayed high across many lists without reaching first place. Each total adds up a name’s counts in the years it appeared on a top-30 list, so the ranking reflects repeated appearances across eight years.
The six names that reached first place
Six names were first on one of the 16 yearly lists. Their years at the top are the clearest way to see how the list moved.
- Zeynep was first on the girls’ list from 2018 to 2022, five years in a row. Her total of 77,893 is the highest in the ranking.
- Yusuf was first on the boys’ list from 2018 to 2021, with a total of 54,323.
- Alparslan was first on the boys’ list from 2022 to 2025, with a total of 49,757.
- Asel was first on the girls’ list in 2023 only, with a total of 52,200.
- Defne was first on the girls’ list in 2024 only, with a total of 54,335.
- Alya was first in 2025 only, with a total of 28,173.
Yusuf and Alparslan never shared a year at the top. The boys’ first place passed from one name to the other in 2022.
Alya: one first place, a lower total
Alya appeared on all eight lists, but it ranked 20th in 2018 and 18th in 2021 before reaching first in 2025. Seven of its eight listings were below first place, which is why its total of 28,173 puts it 22nd in the combined ranking. Asel and Defne each reached first only once as well, but both ranked in the top five in most of the eight years, which lifts their totals.
The rest of the top 25
Elif (50,255) and Eymen (42,387) each reached second place, and Ömer Asaf (42,124) reached third. Asya (40,400) reached fourth on the girls’ list.
Göktuğ is listed in six years, from 2020 to 2025, and was second in 2024 and 2025. Its total of 29,814 ranks it 17th. Azra appeared in seven years, missing 2025, and was fifth in 2019.
Of the 25 names, 14 are boys’ names and 11 are girls’ names. Asel, Ömer Asaf, Ömer and Ali Asaf are in the top 25 without a name page here.
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