Türke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: usually from Turk, often a byname from a Turkish soldier or captive; sometimes from Thuring (Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈtʏrkə/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Türke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 80K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 467K
- CZCzechia1 in 630K
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 Türke 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Turke in US United States, CA Canada, CH Switzerland and 2 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.
How to pronounce Türke
- German:/ˈtʏrkə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Turkish:/t̪yɾce/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)usually from Turk, often a byname from a Turkish soldier or captive; sometimes from Thuring
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Türke is found
(measured from records)Türke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Türke | 49 |
| US United States | 209 | 1 in 1.6M | 221 | Turke | 119 |
| BR Brazil | 102 | 1 in 2.1M | 102 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Türke | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Turke | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | 18 | 1 in 467K | 18 | Turke | 6 |
| SG Singapore | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 503K | — | Turke | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 555K | — | Turke | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Türke 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 German, Turk
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In German, a Turk (native or inhabitant of Turkey, person of Turkish descent)
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)- Otto Türkeb. 1832DEGerman organist
- Georg Türkeb. 1884DEGerman artist
- Kurt Türkeb. 1920DEGerman author (1920–1984)
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Türke mean, and where does it come from?
- usually from Turk, often a byname from a Turkish soldier or captive; sometimes from Thuring Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Türke?
- It depends on the language: in German /ˈtʏrkə/ (Wiktionary); in Turkish /t̪yɾce/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Türke?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Türke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled türke. After it come United States, Brazil, Austria and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Türke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 209 people named Türke in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 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/t%C3%BCrkeThe 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, “Türke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.