Turka

loc · Latin script

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

Turka is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 700Kas Turaka(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 391K
  • NONorway1 in 683K

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 Turka 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.

India (measured from records)

1,895 named Turaka

Sources
31 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 391K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

TurakaLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Turaka in IN India, US United States.

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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Turka 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 Turka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India1,895as Turaka1 in 700K1.9KTuraka31
US United States≈62 est.≈1 in 5.4MlistedTuraka27
PL Poland241 in 1.6M13——
DK Denmark151 in 391K15——
NO Norway81 in 683K8——

1,895 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Turka is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany

    Also written Türka, Tuerka, Túrká

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Турка

  • Turkish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Türka

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Türka

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Tưrka

27 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)

Turka 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 lad, feminine singular of turko

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, genitive singular of turks

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, alternative form of tørke

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Faroese, to dry

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, pilsēta Ukrainā, Ļvivas apgabalā, 7170 iedzīvotāju (2013. g.)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

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 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Turka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—1.2K#3,140
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—160#20,700
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—15#29,775
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202613—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—13#118,581
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202611—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—11#130,591
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—8#59,685
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

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

In which country does Turka have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Turaka, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Turka most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Turka is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 391 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Turka?
In Poland, the national register counted 24 people named Turka in 2026, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.

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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, “Turka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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