Tukur
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Asian barbet (any bird of the family Megalaimidae)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register), 2002
Tukur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden≈1 in 1.4M
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 322K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈65,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Asian barbet (any bird of the family Megalaimidae)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tukur 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | listed | Tukur | 40 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 322K | — | Tukur | 15 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Tukur | 1 |
| US United States | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Tukur | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 7.4M | 30 | Tukur | 5 |
| SE Sweden | #853 | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Tukur | 3 |
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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Tukur is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In btx, to buy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, "Terco y rudo. Etzuan giro aren inguruan. Auraxe zuan personia tukurra " Elexp Berg. Cf. takar. .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In Basque, "Tallo" Zubk Ond. Cf. tokor (2). .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 30 | #70,023 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tukur mean, and where does it come from?
- Asian barbet (any bird of the family Megalaimidae) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tukur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 65 thousand people named Tukur in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tukur.
- How common is the name Tukur?
- Mondonomo estimates about 65,000 people in Nigeria have Tukur as their first surname, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Tukur compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Tukur is the 853rd most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tukurThe 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, “Tukur” — the 853rd most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.