Türk

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Turk (ethnically Turkish person)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/tyɾc/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Türk 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.

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 Türk 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)

TürkLatin(measured from records)
טורקHebrew(measured from records)

Locally spelled 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)

Turk (ethnically Turkish person)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Türk 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 Türk 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)

Türk is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname29 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Arabic

    Also written Turk, Tuerk, Túrk, Tūrk, Tüerk

  • Spanish surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Türkiye, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Turk, Tùrk, ̈turk, Tūrk, Tǘrk

  • Ukrainian surname45 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Croatia, United States

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Croatian

    Also written Турок, Turk, Турк, Turok, Тюрк

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Türkiye, Belgium

    Also written Turk, Tůrk, Tūrk, Tùrk

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Tu̇rk, Turk

  • Estonian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, United States, Netherlands, Türkiye

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Turk, Tūrk, Túrk

34 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Türk is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, 1. Güç, kuvvet. 2. Güzel, civan. 3. Türk soyundan gelen halk. 4. Adam, insan.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In German, ethnic surname meaning 'Turk'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In German, Turk; Turkish origin

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In otk, ‘the culminating point of maturity; (of a fruit) just fully ripe; (of a human being) in the prime of life, young, and vigorous’

    as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)

  • In otk, (of a sheep) fat, in prime condition

    as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Daniel Gottlob Türk, b. 1750Türk Berta, b. 1888Hubert Türk, b. 1925Helmut Türk, b. 1941Ahmet Türk, b. 1942Barbara Miklič Türk, b. 1948Alex Türk, b. 1950Danilo Türk, b. 1952Volker Türk, b. 1965Tuğba Melis Türk, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalSayın Türk,Dear , (English)
InformalSayın Türk,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Türk
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202658—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—58#45,107
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—41#33,505
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202638—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—38#60,767

Reference works 5

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Türk mean, and where does it come from?
Turk (ethnically Turkish person) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Türk?
A machine transcription gives /tyɾc/ (IPA) for Turkish.
What are other forms of the name Türk?
In the etymology graph, Török is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Türk have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 92 thousand people named Türk in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled türk.
Where is Türk most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Türk is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 652 people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Türk?
In the United States, the national register counted 10,354 people named Türk in 2010, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
How common is Türk compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Türk 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, “Türk” — the 96th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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