{"id":39,"date":"2026-11-10T15:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/blog\/top-100-turkish-names-most-given\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:29:12","slug":"top-100-turkish-names-most-given","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/blog\/top-100-turkish-names-most-given\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Names Most Given in 2018\u20132025: All 92 Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This guide covers the full combined ranking built from T\u00dc\u0130K&#8217;s yearly newborn name lists for 2018 through 2025. The chart is labelled as a top 100, but only 92 different names appeared on any of the 16 lists (a top 30 for boys and one for girls in each of the eight years), so the ranking here holds 92 names. Each total is the sum of a name&#8217;s counts in the years it appeared, not a count of all babies.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/guides\/infographics\/top-100-combined.svg\" alt=\"All 92 Turkish names in T\u00dc\u0130K&#x27;s 2018 to 2025 lists, ranked by combined total\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"from-first-to-last\">From first to last<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/zeynep\/\">Zeynep<\/a> leads with 77,893. At the other end, Sare has 2,066, from a single appearance at 30th place on the girls&#8217; list in 2025. Years on the lists track the totals closely. Every name that appeared in all eight years totals at least 20,424, while every name that appeared in only one year totals 3,022 or less.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-many-years-each-name-appeared\">How many years each name appeared<\/h2>\n<p>Grouping the 92 names by the number of lists they made gives this spread. The groups add up to the full 92.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eight years: 33 names, with totals from 20,424 (<a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/ikra\/\">\u0130kra<\/a>) to 77,893 (Zeynep).<\/li>\n<li>Seven years: 10 names, including <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/azra\/\">Azra<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/metehan\/\">Metehan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/ebrar\/\">Ebrar<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Six years: 7 names, including <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/goktug\/\">G\u00f6ktu\u011f<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/poyraz\/\">Poyraz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/umut\/\">Umut<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Five years: 6 names, including <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/gokce\/\">G\u00f6k\u00e7e<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/yagmur\/\">Ya\u011fmur<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Four years: 4 names, including <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/hiranur\/\">Hiranur<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/atlas\/\">Atlas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/oyku\/\">\u00d6yk\u00fc<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Three years: 11 names, including <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/umay\/\">Umay<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/aslan\/\">Aslan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/melisa\/\">Melisa<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Two years: 7 names, including <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/inci\/\">\u0130nci<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/ayse\/\">Ay\u015fe<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/kumsal\/\">Kumsal<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>One year: 14 names.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A long run is not the same as a high rank. <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/ali\/\">Ali<\/a> has eight years on the lists, but its best place is 11th. <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/mert\/\">Mert<\/a> also has eight years, with a best place of 24th.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"names-that-made-one-list\">Names that made one list<\/h2>\n<p>Fourteen names appeared on one list only, and their totals run from 2,066 to 3,022. <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/nisa\/\">Nisa<\/a> has the highest total in that group and Sare the lowest. Eleven of the 14 are girls&#8217; names, including <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/nisanur\/\">Nisanur<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/ceylin\/\">Ceylin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/ipek\/\">\u0130pek<\/a>. The other three are boys&#8217; names: <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/emirhan\/\">Emirhan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/cihan\/\">Cihan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/turkicnames.com\/names\/yaman\/\">Yaman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ties are kept in the source lists, so three of the 16 lists run to 31 names. Those tie-driven extra places are included in the counts above.<\/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>All 92 Turkish names that appeared in T\u00dc\u0130K&#8217;s 2018 to 2025 newborn lists, ranked by combined total, with how many years each name made a list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tn_meta_description":"All 92 Turkish names most given in T\u00dc\u0130K's 2018-2025 lists, ranked by combined total and grouped by how many years each name appeared.","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","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\/39","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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.turkicnames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}