{"id":21,"date":"2026-11-10T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/blog\/biggest-climbers-turkish-baby-names-2018-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:29:09","slug":"biggest-climbers-turkish-baby-names-2018-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/blog\/biggest-climbers-turkish-baby-names-2018-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Baby Names That Climbed Most in the Top 30, 2018-2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between the 2018 and 2025 yearly lists, Alparslan made the largest move of any name that appears in both years: from 30th among boys in 2018 to 1st in 2025, a climb of 29 places. <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/alya\/\">Alya<\/a> made the largest move for girls, from 20th to 1st. The chart below shows the names that climbed most in T\u00dc\u0130K&#8217;s national top-30 lists.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/guides\/infographics\/biggest-risers.svg\" alt=\"Bar chart of the names that climbed most in the national top 30, 2018 to 2025\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"how-the-ranking-works\">How the ranking works<\/h2>\n<p>This comparison uses the yearly top-30 lists that T\u00dc\u0130K publishes for newborn boys and girls. Each name is judged on two positions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rank<\/strong> is a name&#8217;s published position in a year&#8217;s top-30 list, where 1 is the most-given name for that gender.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Places climbed<\/strong> is the 2018 rank minus the 2025 rank. A positive number means the name moved up the list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A name is only in a list while it is in that year&#8217;s top 30. Names that entered the list after 2018 have no 2018 position, and names that left it before 2025 have no 2025 position, so neither can be ranked here. Boys and girls are ranked separately. In three years a tie put 31 names on one list, so a list can be longer than 30 lines.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-biggest-climbers\">The biggest climbers<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>[Alparslan](\/names\/alparslan\/)<\/strong> (boys): 30th to 1st, 29 places. The published count rose from 2,645 in 2018 to 7,509 in 2025. He has been first among boys since 2022.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Alya](\/names\/alya\/)<\/strong> (girls): 20th to 1st, 19 places. The published count rose from 2,991 in 2018 to 8,739 in 2025. Alya was 16th in 2024, so the top spot came in a single year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Kerem](\/names\/kerem\/)<\/strong> (boys): 21st to 5th, 16 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Poyraz](\/names\/poyraz\/)<\/strong> (boys): 29th to 14th, 15 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Aras](\/names\/aras\/)<\/strong> (boys): 23rd to 10th, 13 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Alperen](\/names\/alperen\/)<\/strong> (boys): 24th to 15th, 9 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Asya](\/names\/asya\/)<\/strong> (girls): 12th to 7th, 5 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Z\u00fcmra](\/names\/zumra\/)<\/strong> (girls): 17th to 12th, 5 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Ela](\/names\/ela\/)<\/strong> (girls): 22nd to 18th, 4 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Asel<\/strong> (girls): 7th to 5th, 2 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Defne](\/names\/defne\/)<\/strong> (girls): 3rd to 2nd, 1 place.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Duru](\/names\/duru\/)<\/strong> (girls): 11th to 10th, 1 place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"names-that-cannot-be-compared\">Names that cannot be compared<\/h2>\n<p>Some names rank high in 2025 but were not in the 2018 top 30, so no climb can be measured for them. <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/goktug\/\">G\u00f6ktu\u011f<\/a> was 2nd among boys in 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/metehan\/\">Metehan<\/a> was 3rd among boys, and <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/gokce\/\">G\u00f6k\u00e7e<\/a> was 3rd among girls. Their 2025 positions are in the source lists, but they are not in the chart.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-the-climbs-show\">What the climbs show<\/h2>\n<p>A climb shows a name moving up within the top 30. It does not measure how many new babies received the name, although the published counts for each year are in the source lists. Alparslan, Alya, Kerem and Poyraz all finished 2025 in the top 15, so their climbs ended in the upper part of the list.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"where-the-data-comes-from\">Where the data comes from<\/h2>\n<p>The rankings come from T\u00dc\u0130K (Turkish Statistical Institute), which publishes newborn name statistics for each year at <a href=\"https:\/\/nip.tuik.gov.tr\/?value=YeniDoganIsimleri\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">T\u00dc\u0130K newborn name lists<\/a>. The data covers only the top 30 names for boys and for girls in each year, not every birth. It cannot show how many babies received a name outside those 30 places, why families chose a name, or how names differ by region. Comparing only two single years also means the 2018 and 2025 positions may not show the path in between.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"sources\">Sources<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"tn-sources\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/data.tuik.gov.tr\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">T\u00dc\u0130K (Turkish Statistical Institute)<\/a> \u2013 newborn-name lists, 2018\u20132025<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alparslan rose from 30th among boys in 2018 to 1st in 2025, and Alya from 20th to 1st among girls. Here are the biggest climbers in T\u00dc\u0130K&#8217;s yearly top-30 lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tn_meta_description":"The Turkish baby names that climbed most in T\u00dc\u0130K's national top-30 lists from 2018 to 2025, ranked by places gained between the first and last year.","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}