{"id":23,"date":"2026-11-10T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/blog\/biggest-fallers-turkish-baby-names-2018-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:29:10","slug":"biggest-fallers-turkish-baby-names-2018-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/blog\/biggest-fallers-turkish-baby-names-2018-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Baby Names That Fell Most in the Top 30, 2018-2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emir had the largest fall among names that appear in both the 2018 and 2025 lists, dropping from 9th among boys to 30th, a loss of 21 places. <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/eymen\/\">Eymen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/elif\/\">Elif<\/a> each started 2018 in second place among their gender, and by 2025 they stood 17th and 11th. The chart below shows the 15 names that dropped 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-fallers.svg\" alt=\"Bar chart of the names that dropped 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>The method matches the climbers comparison, read in the other direction:<\/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 dropped<\/strong> is the 2025 rank minus the 2018 rank. A higher number means a bigger fall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A name is only in a list while it is in that year&#8217;s top 30. This post compares only names that appear in both the 2018 and the 2025 lists. A name that left the top 30 before 2025 has no 2025 position, so it cannot be given a drop figure, however high it stood in 2018.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-biggest-drops\">The biggest drops<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>[Emir](\/names\/emir\/)<\/strong> (boys): 9th to 30th, 21 places. The published count fell from 4,726 in 2018 to 1,984 in 2025.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Mehmet](\/names\/mehmet\/)<\/strong> (boys): 11th to 29th, 18 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Ahmet](\/names\/ahmet\/)<\/strong> (boys): 8th to 24th, 16 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Eymen](\/names\/eymen\/)<\/strong> (boys): 2nd to 17th, 15 places. The count fell from 8,301 to 2,799.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Mustafa](\/names\/mustafa\/)<\/strong> (boys): 6th to 21st, 15 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Eyl\u00fcl](\/names\/eylul\/)<\/strong> (girls): 5th to 20th, 15 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ali Asaf<\/strong> (boys): 7th to 19th, 12 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Nehir](\/names\/nehir\/)<\/strong> (girls): 14th to 26th, 12 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Meryem](\/names\/meryem\/)<\/strong> (girls): 8th to 19th, 11 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Ali](\/names\/ali\/)<\/strong> (boys): 12th to 22nd, 10 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Hamza](\/names\/hamza\/)<\/strong> (boys): 15th to 25th, 10 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Elif](\/names\/elif\/)<\/strong> (girls): 2nd to 11th, 9 places. The count fell from 9,893 in 2018 to 3,713 in 2025.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Mira\u00e7](\/names\/mirac\/)<\/strong> (boys): 4th to 11th, 7 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Yi\u011fit](\/names\/yigit\/)<\/strong> (boys): 10th to 16th, 6 places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>[Ayaz](\/names\/ayaz\/)<\/strong> (boys): 18th to 23rd, 5 places.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"drops-the-chart-cannot-rank\">Drops the chart cannot rank<\/h2>\n<p>Several names from the 2018 top 30 are missing from the 2025 list entirely. Among them are <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/ebrar\/\">Ebrar<\/a> (4th for girls in 2018), <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/hiranur\/\">Hiranur<\/a> (6th), <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/zehra\/\">Zehra<\/a> (9th) and <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/azra\/\">Azra<\/a> (13th). Because they have no 2025 position, they are left out of the chart. A reader looking only at the chart would miss these falls, so the chart is a partial picture of who lost ground.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-a-drop-means\">What a drop means<\/h2>\n<p>A drop means a name lost position in the list. It does not by itself show that fewer children received the name, since the published counts are the only measure of that. A name can also slip because other names moved above it, so a fall in rank is not the same as a fall in the number of families who chose it.<\/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. Two single years also cannot show the path between them, so a fall may have been steady or may have happened in one step.<\/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>Emir fell from 9th among boys in 2018 to 30th in 2025, the largest drop in T\u00dc\u0130K&#8217;s yearly top-30 lists. Eymen and Elif each dropped from 2nd place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tn_meta_description":"The Turkish baby names that dropped most in T\u00dc\u0130K's national top-30 lists from 2018 to 2025, ranked by places lost between the first and last year.","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","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\/23","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=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}