Turok
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʰɜk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Turok is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Slovenia it is the 27th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Ukrainian Турок (Turok), from Ukrainian турок (turok, “Turk”) or perhaps a derivative of Proto-Slavic *turъ (“aurochs”).
- HRCroatia1 in 2.4Kas Turk(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 37Kas Турок
- EEEstonia≈1 in 100K
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 Turok 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)
10,354 named Turk, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Turk in US United States, HR Croatia, SI Slovenia and 3 more and Турок in UA Ukraine.
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)
- UkrainianТурокTurok(measured from records)
- Ukrainianтурокturok“Turk”(measured from records)
From Ukrainian Турок (Turok), from Ukrainian турок (turok, “Turk”) or perhaps a derivative of Proto-Slavic *turъ (“aurochs”).
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Turok 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 10,354as Turk | 1 in 32K | 10K | Turk | 81 |
| SI Slovenia | #27 | 3,227as Turk | 1 in 652 | 3.2K | Turk | 60 |
| HR Croatia | #199 | 1,765as Turk | 1 in 2.4K | 1.8K | Turk | 64 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Турок | 29 |
| IN India | — | 1,165as Turk | 1 in 1.1M | 1.2K | Turk | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,085as Turk | 1 in 16K | 1.1K | Turk | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 248as Türk | 1 in 34K | 248 | — | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 111 | 1 in 345K | 60 | Turok | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 100K | 8 | Turk | 7 |
10,354 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Turok is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, dim of Tur.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Filipino, act of piercing with a pointed object (such as a pin or needle)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovak, a male surname originating as an ethnonym
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mde, stick, wand
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)
- Ben Turokb. 1927ZASouth African politician (1927-2019)
- Mária Turok-Hetešb. 1930Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament and Slovak nation politician
- Marta Turokb. 1952MXMexican anthropologist
- Ivan Turokb. 1956ZAresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-5520-2492
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 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 175 | #108,023 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 172 | #97,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 153 | #114,424 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 60 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 60 | #43,975 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 51 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 51 | #49,908 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 8 | #12,979 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 7 | #13,677 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
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 Turok mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ukrainian Турок (Turok), from Ukrainian турок (turok, “Turk”) or perhaps a derivative of Proto-Slavic *turъ (“aurochs”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Turok?
- A machine transcription gives /tʰɜk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Turok have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Turk, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Turok?
- In Poland, the national register counted 111 people named Turok in 2026, about 1 in 345 thousand residents.
- How common is Turok compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Turok is the 27th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Turok?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/turokThe 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, “Turok” — the 27th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.