{"id":37,"date":"2026-11-10T15:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/blog\/number-one-turkish-baby-names-by-year-2018-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:29:12","slug":"number-one-turkish-baby-names-by-year-2018-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/blog\/number-one-turkish-baby-names-by-year-2018-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 Turkish Baby Names by Year for Boys and Girls, 2018-2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yusuf was the most given boys&#8217; name in T\u00dc\u0130K&#8217;s yearly top-30 lists from 2018 through 2021, and Zeynep was the most given girls&#8217; name through 2022. Alparslan took the top spot for boys in 2022 and kept it through 2025. For girls, the first place changed in 2023, 2024 and 2025, ending with <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/alya\/\">Alya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/guides\/infographics\/yearly-number-one.svg\" alt=\"Chart of the number one boys&#x27; and girls&#x27; name in each year, 2018 to 2025\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"how-the-number-one-is-measured\">How the number one is measured<\/h2>\n<p>The number one is the name in position 1 of each year&#8217;s national top-30 list, with boys and girls kept separate. Every year is its own list, so a name can hold first place for several years and then lose it. The counts quoted below are the published counts for that year&#8217;s list. Because the ranking uses positions, a close race at the top can change first place even when the counts are near each other.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"boys\">Boys<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2018 to 2021: [Yusuf](\/names\/yusuf\/).<\/strong> Yusuf held first place for four years. Its published count was 9,583 in 2018 and 7,069 in 2021.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2022 to 2025: [Alparslan](\/names\/alparslan\/).<\/strong> Alparslan moved into first place in 2022 with 8,318, ahead of Yusuf in second with 6,360. Its count reached 8,941 in 2023 and was 7,509 in 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"girls\">Girls<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2018 to 2022: [Zeynep](\/names\/zeynep\/).<\/strong> Zeynep was first in each of these five years, the longest run at the top for any girls&#8217; name in the lists. Its count was 14,183 in 2018 and 8,850 in 2022.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2023: Asel.<\/strong> Asel took first place with 8,104. Zeynep dropped to second with 7,602.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2024: [Defne](\/names\/defne\/).<\/strong> Defne took first place with 7,447, ahead of Asel in second with 7,337. Zeynep fell to third with 6,523.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2025: [Alya](\/names\/alya\/).<\/strong> Alya took first place with 8,739, after finishing 16th in 2024. Defne was second with 7,716.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"when-the-number-one-changed\">When the number one changed<\/h2>\n<p>Across 2018 to 2025, the top spot changed four times:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2022, boys:<\/strong> Yusuf gave way to Alparslan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2023, girls:<\/strong> Zeynep gave way to Asel.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2024, girls:<\/strong> Asel gave way to Defne.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2025, girls:<\/strong> Defne gave way to Alya.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The boys&#8217; top spot changed once, and the girls&#8217; top spot changed three times in a row. Before 2022, Yusuf and Zeynep had held first place for four and five years. From 2022 through 2025, Alparslan kept the boys&#8217; first place, while the girls&#8217; first place moved in each of the last three years of the data. Readers who want the full picture can compare the yearly lists, since a single number one hides how close the names beneath it were.<\/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. A number one is a position within the top-30 list, so it says nothing about names that were not in that list.<\/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>Yusuf topped the boys&#8217; list until 2021, then Alparslan took over in 2022. 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