Turnsek
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Turnsek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 108K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 649K
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.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
779 people
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Turnšek in SI Slovenia, HR Croatia, RS Serbia.
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.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Turnsek 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | #258 | 779 | 1 in 2.7K | 779 | Turnšek | 24 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Turnsek | 28 |
| HR Croatia | — | 39 | 1 in 108K | 39 | Turnšek | 9 |
| US United States | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Turnsek | 30 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | — | Turnsek | 14 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 649K | — | Turnšek | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | 2 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Turnsek | 1 |
779 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Turnsek have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 779 people named Turnsek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled turnšek.
- Where is Turnsek most common?
- Turnsek is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Turnsek?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 779 people named Turnsek, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Turnsek compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Turnsek is the 258th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Turnsek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/turnsekThe 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, “Turnsek” — the 258th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.