Top 30 Turkish Names Most Given in 2018–2025

Which Turkish names were given most often between 2018 and 2025? Each year, TÜİK (the Turkish Statistical Institute) publishes its list of the 30 most given newborn names for boys and a separate list for girls. Adding up each name’s counts across every year it appeared on one of those lists produces a combined ranking, and the chart below shows its top 30. Read the totals as repeated appearances on the published lists, not as a count of every baby born in that period.

How the ranking is built

TÜİK’s lists cover eight years, 2018 through 2025. Each year has one top-30 list for boys and one for girls, so the ranking draws on 16 lists. A name’s total is the sum of its counts in the years it appeared. A name that stayed on the lists for all eight years adds up eight counts, while a name that made only one list has a single count.

Ties are kept, which is why three of the 16 lists run to 31 names instead of 30. Boys’ and girls’ names are published on separate lists, so every name in this ranking belongs to one gender. The top 30 contains 15 boys’ names and 15 girls’ names.

The leaders

Zeynep has the highest total at 77,893. She was first on the girls’ list every year from 2018 to 2022, then second in 2023, third in 2024 and fourth in 2025. Defne follows with 54,335, and Yusuf is almost level at 54,323. Yusuf was first on the boys’ list from 2018 to 2021.

Asel is fourth with 52,200 and was first on the girls’ list in 2023. Elif (50,255) was second on the girls’ list from 2018 to 2021. Alparslan (49,757) was first on the boys’ list from 2022 to 2025, after starting 2018 in 30th place.

The rest of the top 30

Eymen (42,387) was second on the boys’ list in 2018 and 2019. Ömer Asaf (42,124) was third in 2018, and Miraç (41,852) reached second in 2020. Asya (40,400) reached fourth on the girls’ list in 2021.

Some names in the top 30 have a shorter run. Azra, Metehan, Ecrin and Ebrar each appear in seven of the eight years, so their totals come from one fewer list. Ebrar sits in 30th place with 26,147. The next name in the combined ranking, Çınar, has 25,507.

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