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Around the world, Turke (Turk , Turke , Turc ) is quite a rare predominantly male, but very seldom feminine first name. The first name Turke is characteristic of Western Asia, particularly Saudi Arabia, where it is quite a rare predominantly masculine, but scarcely girly name, Kuwait, where it is a rare boy's name, and Oman. Measured by absolute frequency, the name is most common in Saudi Arabia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Iraq. More prevalently, Turke is the last name as well as the forename.
Turke is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Turk , the biblical character; son of Japheth and Turk Barrett , the fictional character in Marvel Comics.