{"id":33,"date":"2026-11-10T15:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/blog\/most-given-turkish-boys-names-top-30\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:29:11","slug":"most-given-turkish-boys-names-top-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/blog\/most-given-turkish-boys-names-top-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Boys&#8217; Names Most Given: Top 30 for 2018\u20132025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This guide ranks the 30 boys&#8217; names with the highest combined totals in T\u00dc\u0130K&#8217;s boys&#8217; top-30 lists for 2018 through 2025. The lists cover eight years, and a name can appear at most once in each year. So a total shows repeated appearances on the lists, not how many boys were given that name in total.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/guides\/infographics\/boys-top-30.svg\" alt=\"Top 30 Turkish boys&#x27; names ranked by combined total across T\u00dc\u0130K&#x27;s 2018 to 2025 lists\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"yusuf-and-alparslan-at-the-top\">Yusuf and Alparslan at the top<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/yusuf\/\">Yusuf<\/a> has the highest boys&#8217; total at 54,323. It was first in 2018 through 2021, and its count of 9,583 in 2018 is the largest on any boys&#8217; list in these years. By 2025 Yusuf had dropped to fourth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/alparslan\/\">Alparslan<\/a> is second with 49,757. It was first from 2022 to 2025, and it started 2018 in 30th place. In 2025 it topped the list with 7,509, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/goktug\/\">G\u00f6ktu\u011f<\/a> with 6,029 and <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/metehan\/\">Metehan<\/a> with 5,379.<\/p>\n<p>Below them, <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/eymen\/\">Eymen<\/a> (42,387) was second in 2018 and 2019, and \u00d6mer Asaf (42,124) was third in 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/mirac\/\">Mira\u00e7<\/a> (41,852) reached second in 2020, and <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/kerem\/\">Kerem<\/a> (32,170) was fifth in 2025.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"biggest-rises-and-falls-2018-to-2025\">Biggest rises and falls, 2018 to 2025<\/h2>\n<p>Comparing rank in 2018 with rank in 2025 shows the largest moves among boys&#8217; names that appeared in both years.<\/p>\n<p>Rises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alparslan: 30th to 1st<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/kerem\/\">Kerem<\/a>: 21st to 5th<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/poyraz\/\">Poyraz<\/a>: 29th to 14th<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/aras\/\">Aras<\/a>: 23rd to 10th<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/alperen\/\">Alperen<\/a>: 24th to 15th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Falls:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/emir\/\">Emir<\/a>: 9th to 30th<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/mehmet\/\">Mehmet<\/a>: 11th to 29th<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/ahmet\/\">Ahmet<\/a>: 8th to 24th<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/eymen\/\">Eymen<\/a>: 2nd to 17th<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/mustafa\/\">Mustafa<\/a>: 6th to 21st<\/li>\n<li>Ali Asaf: 7th to 19th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/mert\/\">Mert<\/a> held 26th place in both years.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 boys&#8217; top three were Yusuf (9,583), Eymen (8,301) and \u00d6mer Asaf (7,150). The 2025 top three were Alparslan (7,509), G\u00f6ktu\u011f (6,029) and Metehan (5,379). None of the 2018 leaders appears in the 2025 top three.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"names-with-fewer-years\">Names with fewer years<\/h2>\n<p>Atlas (12,847) appears in four years, from 2022 to 2025, and its best place is ninth. <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/goktug\/\">G\u00f6ktu\u011f<\/a> is listed in six years and was second in 2024 and 2025. Metehan, Muhammed, Muhammed Ali, <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/miran\/\">Miran<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/emir\/\">Emir<\/a> each appear in seven of the eight years, so each total comes from one fewer list.<\/p>\n<p>Ties are kept, so the 2020 and 2023 boys&#8217; lists each run to 31 names.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-this-data-is-collected\">How this data is collected<\/h2>\n<p>T\u00dc\u0130K 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 T\u00dc\u0130K 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.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"where-the-data-comes-from\">Where the data comes from<\/h2>\n<p>The yearly newborn name lists are published by T\u00dc\u0130K at <a href=\"https:\/\/nip.tuik.gov.tr\/?value=YeniDoganIsimleri\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">T\u00dc\u0130K newborn name statistics<\/a>. Every figure in this guide comes from those lists for 2018 to 2025.<\/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>The 30 boys&#8217; names with the highest combined totals in T\u00dc\u0130K&#8217;s 2018 to 2025 boys&#8217; top-30 lists, plus the biggest rises and falls between 2018 and 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tn_meta_description":"Top 30 Turkish boys' names most given in T\u00dc\u0130K's 2018-2025 lists, with first-place years and the biggest rank changes from 2018 to 2025.","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","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\/33","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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}