Turpín
surname · Latin script
Turpín is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old French [Term?], of Germanic origin: Tur (“god or divine”) + pin (“evergreen tree”).
- USUnited States1 in 28K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 47K
- GYGuyana1 in 44K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
11,937 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Turpin in US United States, ES Spain, GW Guinea-Bissau.
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)From Old French [Term?], of Germanic origin: Tur (“god or divine”) + pin (“evergreen tree”).
Cited for this meaning 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Turpín 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 11,937 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Turpin | 100 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,064 | 1 in 47K | 1.1K | Turpin | 73 |
| BE Belgium | — | 136 | 1 in 86K | 136 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 35 | 1 in 240K | 35 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | 4 |
| GY Guyana | — | 17 | 1 in 44K | 17 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | #138 | — | — | — | Turpin | 6 |
11,937 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Turpín mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old French [Term?], of Germanic origin: Tur (“god or divine”) + pin (“evergreen tree”). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Turpín have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Turpín, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled turpin.
- Where is Turpín most common?
- Turpín is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 28 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Turpín?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,937 people named Turpín in 2010, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Turpín compared with other names?
- In Guinea-Bissau, Turpín is the 138th most common surname of 221 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/turp%C3%ADnThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Turpín” — the 138th most common surname in Guinea-Bissau. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.