Tuerk
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃɝk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tuerk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Dominica it is the most common surname.
- SYSyria≈1 in 14Kas Turk(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 16Kas Turk
- USUnited States1 in 32Kas Turk
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 Tuerk 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 394 (measured from records)
- 1 in 652 (inferred from the name graph)
10,354 named Turk, 2010
Highest-authority source
Slovenia, as Turk
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Turk in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DM Dominica and 4 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tuerk 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 | — | 10,354as Turk | 1 in 32K | 10K | Turk | 394 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 3,227as Turk | 1 in 652 | 3.2K | — | 39 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Turk | 40 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,765as Turk | 1 in 2.4K | 1.8K | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 1.4K | Turk | 134 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Turk | 24 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Turk | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,085as Turk | 1 in 16K | 1.1K | Turk | 45 |
| DM Dominica | #1 | — | — | — | Turk | 1 |
10,354 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
- Roy Turkb. 1892USAmerican songwriter and lyricist (1892-1934)
- Alojzij Turkb. 1909SIarchbishop of Beograd
- Stella Turkb. 1925GBBritish zoologist
- Godwin Turkb. 1950USAmerican football player
- John Turkb. 1962USAmerican police officer, actor and personal trainer
- Željko Turkb. 1962HRCroatian politician
- Gavin Turkb. 1967GBBritish artist (born 1967)
- Matt Turkb. 1968USAmerican football player
- Max Tuerkb. 1994USAmerican football player (1994-2020)
- Martin Turkb. 2003SISlovenian association football player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 279 | #74,639 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 276 | #70,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 265 | #69,201 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 5 | #230,412 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Tuerk?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃɝk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tuerk have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Turk, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tuerk most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Tuerk itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Slovenia's: the national register counts about 1 in 652 people named Turk.
- How common is the name Tuerk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,354 people named Turk in 2010, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Tuerk compared with other names?
- In Dominica, Tuerk is the most common surname of 841 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tuerk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tuerkThe 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, “Tuerk” — the most common surname in Dominica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.