Turker

surname · Latin script

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

Turker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A person who does small tasks as part of the Amazon Mechanical Turk service.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 254K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 37K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 194K

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)

≈320 people, est.

Sources
84 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)

Cyprus, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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(measured from records)

A person who does small tasks as part of the Amazon Mechanical Turk service.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Turker 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 Turker is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈320 est.≈1 in 254K—Turker82
FR France≈180 est.≈1 in 376K41Turker82
US United States1101 in 3M163Turker84
IN India≈96 est.≈1 in 14M—Turker5
NL Netherlands891 in 194K89Turker9
CH Switzerland411 in 205K41—3
CY Cyprus≈34 est.≈1 in 37K—Turker10
AT Austria≈34 est.≈1 in 259K3——

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Turker is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Türkiye, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Türker, Tuerker, Tūrker, Túrker

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Türker, Tűrker

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Türker

  • Turkish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Cyprus, India, Netherlands

    Languages: Turkish, Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Türker, Türkér

  • Danish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Türker

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq

    Also written Türker

  • Bulgarian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye, Croatia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Türker

32 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Berç Türker, b. 1870Dilek Türker, b. 1945Sevgi Türker Terlemez, b. 1948Mehmet Türker, b. 1950Masum Türker, b. 1951Yıldırım Türker, b. 1957Sibel K. Türker, b. 1968Suat Türker, b. 1976Gözde Türker, b. 1995

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 16 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Turker
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020163#114,090
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000117#133,114
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010110#149,395
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199141—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198124—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19716—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921——

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

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 Turker mean, and where does it come from?
A person who does small tasks as part of the Amazon Mechanical Turk service. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Turker have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 323 people named Turker in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled turker.
How common is the name Turker?
In the United States, the national register counted 110 people named Turker in 2010, about 1 in 3.0 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, “Turker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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