Turska
surname · Latin script
/turska/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Turska is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 105Kas Турська(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 16K
- FIFinland1 in 94K
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 Turska 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
2,370 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Turská in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia and Турська 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Turska 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.
2,370 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Turska 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 Serbo-Croatian, Turkey (a country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in western Asia)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, cod (Gadus morhua)
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)
- Ewa Bandrowska-Turskab. 1894PLPolish singer, opera singer and music educator (1894–1979)
- Halina Turskab. 1901PLPolish linguist
- Irena Turskab. 1912PLPolish historian
- Halina Paszkowska-Turskab. 1927PLPolish audio technician (1927-2017)
- Krystyna Turskab. 1933illustrator (1933–2002)
- Ewa Turskab. 1945PLPolish-Canadian artist (born 1945)
- Alicja TurskaPLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
- Jolanta Parada-TurskaPLPolish rheumatologist
- Monika TurskaPLPolish researcher
- Anna Turska-SzewczukPLresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-2975-9593
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 10 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.4K | #1,094 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 59 | #19,825 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Turska?
- A machine transcription gives /turska/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Turska have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Turska, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled turska.
- Where is Turska most common?
- Turska is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Turska?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,370 people named Turska in 2026, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Turska?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/turskaThe 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, “Turska”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.