Turco
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Turkish (of or relating to Turkey)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtɝkoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Turco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 99K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 140K
- ITItaly≈1 in 6.6K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Turkish (of or relating to Turkey)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Turco is read(measured from records)
Turco is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English46%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Turco in English.
- Spanish23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Turco in Spanish.
- Italian10%
do turco türk; designava turcos e, na Idade Média, também árabes, sarracenos, muçulmanos
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
La variante Cristiano é forse sorta per un accostamento e un incrocio medioevale con Tristano.
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
Variante di Turchi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
- French8.5%
Nom familier des tirailleurs algériens et, par extension, des soldats indigènes. Le mot a d’abord signifié turc puis algérien car l’Algérie a dépendu de la Turquie jusqu’en 1830.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Turco 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | listed | Turco | 62 |
| US United States | 2,380 | 1 in 140K | 2.4K | Turco | 265 |
| AR Argentina | 1,219 | 1 in 37K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Turco | 23 |
| BR Brazil | 1,079 | 1 in 196K | 1.1K | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 189 | 1 in 62K | 197 | Turco | 14 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Turco | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 50 | 1 in 68K | 50 | — | — |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Turco is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, Turkish (of or relating to Turkey)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of Turcus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Peppino Turcob. 1846ITItalian songwriter (1846-1903)
- Enzo Turcob. 1902ITItalian actor (1902–1983)
- Mirosław Turkob. 1918UAnot in their usual nameFootballer (1918-1981)
- Richard P. Turcob. 1943USatmospheric scientist
- Livia Turcob. 1955ITItalian politician
- Marco Turcob. 1960ITItalian film director
- Maurizio Turcob. 1960ITItalian politician
- Paige Turcob. 1965USAmerican actress
- Marty Turcob. 1975CACanadian ice hockey player
- Cosetta Turcoactress
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 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,916 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,282 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,735 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #8,652 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 197 | #9,170 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 189 | #8,885 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 50 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Turco mean, and where does it come from?
- Turkish (of or relating to Turkey) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Turco?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtɝkoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Turco have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.4 thousand people named Turco in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled turco.
- How common is the name Turco?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,380 people named Turco in 2010, about 1 in 140 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/turcoThe 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, “Turco”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.