Türker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Yiğit Türk
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Türker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- MKNorth Macedonia≈1 in 5K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 5.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Yiğit Türk.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Türker 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #265 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Türker | 56 |
| MK North Macedonia | #666 | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Türker | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 3 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #249 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Türker | 8 |
| IQ Iraq | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Türker | 3 |
| US United States | — | 110 | 1 in 3M | 163 | Türker | 11 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Berç Türkerb. 1870TRTurkish banker and statesperson (1870–1949)
- Dilek Türkerb. 1945TRTurkish actor (born 1945)
- Sevgi Türker Terlemezb. 1948TRTurkish writer (born 1948)
- Mehmet Türkerb. 1950TRTurkish writer (born 1950)
- Masum Türkerb. 1951TRTurkish statesperson (born 1951)
- Yıldırım Türkerb. 1957TRTurkish screenwriter (born 1957)
- Sibel K. Türkerb. 1968TRTurkish writer (born 1968)
- Suat Türkerb. 1976TRTurkish-German association football player (1976–2023)
- Gözde Türkerb. 1995TRTurkish actor (born 1995)
- Pınar TürkerTRTurkish researcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Türker mean?
- Recorded meaning: Yiğit Türk.
- In which country does Türker have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Türker in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled türker.
- How common is the name Türker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 110 people named Türker in 2010, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
- How common is Türker compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Türker is the 265th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%BCrkerThe 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, “Türker” — the 265th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.