Tuerk
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tuerk is a surname, most frequently recorded in Germany. In Dominica it is the most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script.
- DMDominica1 in 82◐
- DEGermany1 in 11K
- NLNetherlands1 in 16K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈19K ●
- Sources
- 348 ●
- 1 in 652 ◐
across 13 countries
120K records
Official registry-verified
Slovenia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Turk in US United States, GB United Kingdom, SI Slovenia and 17 more and Türk in DE Germany, TR Türkiye, AT Austria and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #917 | 10,417 | 9.9K rec. | — | — | Türk | 88 |
| US United States | — | 10,354 | 82K rec. | 1 in 32K | 10K | Turk | 348 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4,537 | 4.2K rec. | — | — | Turk | 104 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 3,227△ | 53 rec. | 1 in 652 | 3.2K | Turk | 42 |
| AU Australia | — | 2,732 | 2.6K rec. | — | — | Turk | 94 |
| CA Canada | — | 2,177 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Turk | 85 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,765 | — | 1 in 2.4K | 1.8K | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | — | 1,764 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Türk | 44 |
| DM Dominica | #1 | 1,572 | 8.4K rec. | — | — | Turk | 1 |
| IR Iran | — | 1,296 | 106 rec. | — | — | Turk | 10 |
| IN India | — | 1,165△ | 355 rec. | 1 in 1.1M | 1.2K | Turk | 34 |
| SY Syria | — | 1,156 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Turk | 12 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English2.8K54%
- German1.9K36%
- Spanish1052%
- 822%
- Portuguese421%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 2,779 | 54% |
| German | 1,877 | 36% |
| Spanish | 105 | 2% |
| 82 | 2% | |
| Portuguese | 42 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Roy Turkb. 1892USnot in their usual nameAmerican songwriter and lyricist (1892-1934)
- Alojzij Turkb. 1909SInot in their usual namearchbishop of Beograd
- Stella Turkb. 1925GBnot in their usual nameBritish zoologist
- Godwin Turkb. 1950USnot in their usual nameAmerican football player
- John Turkb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican police officer, actor and personal trainer
- Željko Turkb. 1962HRnot in their usual nameCroatian politician
- Gavin Turkb. 1967GBnot in their usual nameBritish artist (born 1967)
- Matt Turkb. 1968USnot in their usual nameAmerican football player
- Max Tuerkb. 1994USAmerican football player (1994-2020)
- Martin Turkb. 2003SInot in their usual nameSlovenian association football player
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●
Attested in 6 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 279 | #74,639 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 276 | #70,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 265 | #69,201 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tuerk?
- We estimate roughly 19 thousand people bear Tuerk (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tuerk have the most bearers?
- Tuerk is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled türk.
- How common is Tuerk compared with other names?
- In Germany, Tuerk is the 917th most common surname of 734,811 surnames recorded there.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Tuerk” — the 917th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.