Turki

loc · Latin script

Meaning: people, lang., Asia

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

/tɝki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • SYSyria≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SESweden1 in 105K
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 197K

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.

Syria (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,500 people, est.

Sources
30 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

Syria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Türki in TR Türkiye, SY Syria.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

people, lang., Asia

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Turki 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 Turki is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SY Syria≈1,500 est.≈1 in 13K—Türki1
TR Türkiye≈350 est.≈1 in 237K—Türki5
DZ Algeria≈220 est.≈1 in 197Klisted——
US United States1901 in 1.8M189—7
SE Sweden971 in 105K97——
EE Estonia≈3 est.≈1 in 352Klisted——

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the dz-kaggle-names 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Turki is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Türkiye, Iraq, Ukraine

    Languages: Turkish, Arabic, English

    Also written Türki, Туркі, Tiurki, Тюрки, Turkī

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Syria

    Also written Türki, Turkī

  • a separate name22 spellings in the group

    Also written Türki, Turkki, Tûřķí, Турки, Turkī

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Turkī, Türki

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria

    Also written Türki, Turkī

  • Malay given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Syria, Türkiye

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Turkey, Türki, Türkey

47 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)

Turki 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.

  • handsome, beloved, planet

    as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

  • In tuw-pro, sleigh, narta

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In English, Of or relating to Turkic languages, especially those of Central Asia, or the peoples speaking them.

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

  • In kw, Turkey (a country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in western Asia)

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

  • In Latvian, nominative/vocative plural of turks

    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)

1700180019002000Turki bin Abdullah Al Saud, b. 1769Turki bin Said Al Busaidi, b. 1832Turki I bin Abdul, b. 1896Yahia Turki, b. 1903Zoubeir Turki, b. 1924Turki II bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, b. 1934Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, b. 1945Turki Abdulmuhsen A. AlAl-Shikh, b. 1981Turki bin Salman Al Saud, b. 1987

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)

Formalआदरणीया श्रीमती Turki जी,Respected Turki ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Turki जी,Hi Turki, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 32 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Turki
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—81#8,490
DZ AlgeriaAlgerian names (Kaggle, MIT)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

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 Turki mean, and where does it come from?
people, lang., Asia Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
How common is the name Turki?
In the United States, the national register counted 190 people named Turki in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
How do you pronounce Turki?
A machine transcription gives /tɝki/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Turki have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Turki in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled türki.

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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, “Turki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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