Turov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Turov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: (ultimately cogn. with L taurus bull; see Toro).
- RURussia≈1 in 34Kas Туров(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 99Kas Туров
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 107Kas Туров
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 Turov 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 92K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 named Туров, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Туров in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more.
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)
(ultimately cogn. with L taurus bull; see Toro). Dim.: Pol.: Turajezyk. Turp see Thorpe
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Turov 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Туров | 127 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Туров | 20 |
| BY Belarus | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Туров | 15 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 107K | 244 | Туров | 30 |
| US United States | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 6.2M | — | Turov | 22 |
| MD Moldova | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Turov | 3 |
| PL Poland | 30 | 1 in 1.3M | 30 | — | 3 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Turov is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "bull."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Slovak, genitive plural of tur
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)
- Nissan Touroffb. 1877ILnot in their usual nameHebrew writer (1877–1953)
- Yevgeny Turovb. 1924RURussian scientist (1924-2007)
- Viktor Turovb. 1936BYSoviet and Belarusian film director (1936–1996)
- Rudi Thurowb. 1937DEnot in their usual nameGerman dissident
- Maxim Turovb. 1979RURussian chess player
- Artyom Turovb. 1984RURussian politician
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 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 30 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 30 | #70,496 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- Where does the name Turov come from?
- (ultimately cogn. with L taurus bull; see Toro). Dim.: Pol.: Turajezyk. Turp see Thorpe Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What does the name Turov mean?
- Recorded meaning: (ultimately cogn. with L taurus bull; see Toro).
- In which country does Turov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Туров in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Turov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 30 people named Turov in 2026, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/turovThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Turov”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.