Tűrk

surname · Latin script

Tűrk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 96th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle English Turke, Turk, from Old French Turc, from Medieval Latin Turcus, from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twl.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 890(inferred from the name graph)
  • SISlovenia1 in 652
  • HRCroatia1 in 2.4K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tűrk itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈92,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
121 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 652 (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

TűrkLatin(measured from records)
טורקHebrew(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Türk in TR Türkiye, Turk in US United States and טורק in PL Poland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Tűrk: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Tűrk
  1. Middle EnglishTurke(measured from records)
  2. Old FrenchTurc(measured from records)
  3. Medieval LatinTurcus(measured from records)
  4. Byzantine GreekΤοῦρκοςToûrkos(measured from records)
  5. Classical Persianتُرْکturk(measured from records)
  6. Middle Persian[script(measured from records)
  7. Old Turkic𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜t²ür²k̥ /⁠türük⁠/(measured from records)
  8. Proto-Turkic*törü-“lineage“lineage, ancestry”(measured from records)

From Middle English Turke, Turk, from Old French Turc, from Medieval Latin Turcus, from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /⁠turk⁠/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ür²k̥ /⁠türük⁠/), possibly from Proto-Turkic *törü- (“lineage, ancestry”).

Sources 6

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tűrk counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Tűrk is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#96≈92,000 est.≈1 in 890—Türk91
PL Poland—14,608as Turek1 in 2.6K7.3Kטורק2
US United States—10,3541 in 32K10KTurk121
SI Slovenia—3,2271 in 6523.2K—2
CZ Czechia—3,067as Turek1 in 3.5K3.1K——
HR Croatia—1,7651 in 2.4K1.8K——

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tűrk is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Turk, Tŭrk

  • English surname29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Arabic

    Also written Turk, Türk, Tuerk, Túrk, Tūrk

  • Spanish surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Türkiye, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Turk, Türk, Tùrk, ̈turk, Tūrk

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Tűrk
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—6#108,910
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#295,248
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#397,569

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tűrk mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English Turke, Turk, from Old French Turc, from Medieval Latin Turcus, from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twl… Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
In which country does Tűrk have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 92 thousand people named Tűrk in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled türk.
Where is Tűrk most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tűrk is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 652 people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tűrk?
In the United States, the national register counted 10,354 people named Tűrk in 2010, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
How common is Tűrk compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Tűrk is the 96th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tűrk” — the 96th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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