Turay
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Turay is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Sierra Leone it is the 11th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Turkish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ay gibi güzel genç.
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 213K◐
- USUnited States1 in 255K
- SLSierra Leone1 in 238
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.6K ●
- Sources
- 205 ●
- 1 in 150K ◐
across 11 countries
13K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
Ay gibi güzel genç.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,302 | 9.3K rec. | 1 in 255K | 1.8K | Turay | 205 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,093 | 735 rec. | — | — | Turay | 71 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 656 | 644 rec. | — | — | Turay | 7 |
| PH Philippines | — | 468 | 432 rec. | — | — | Turay | 12 |
| EG Egypt | — | 293 | 285 rec. | — | — | Turay | 8 |
| SL Sierra Leone | #11 | 219 | 419 rec. | — | 67 | Turay | 25 |
| AU Australia | — | 208 | 191 rec. | — | — | Turay | 29 |
| DE Germany | — | 204 | 253 rec. | — | — | Turay | 45 |
| CA Canada | — | 132 | 134 rec. | — | — | Turay | 26 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 80 | 99 rec. | — | — | Turay | 15 |
| GH Ghana | — | 76 | 75 rec. | — | — | Turay | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 68△ | 17 rec. | 1 in 150K | 68 | — | 9 |
Roughly 1.3K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 255K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English12K57%
- Turkish3.5K17%
- Spanish9404%
- French6543%
- Arabic5923%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 12,073 | 57% |
| Turkish | 3,512 | 17% |
| Spanish | 940 | 4% |
| French | 654 | 3% |
| Arabic | 592 | 3% |
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●
- József Turayb. 1905HUHungarian footballer (1905-1963)
- Ida Turayb. 1907HUHungarian actress (1907-1997)
- András Turayb. 1916HUassociation football player (1915–1986)
- Alfréd Turayb. 1944HUHungarian philosopher
- Edward Turayb. 1945SLSierra Leonean politician (died 2023)
- Abdul Turayb. 1967GBBritish journalist residing in Estonia (born 1967)
- Aminata Turayb. 1970SLSierra Leonean handball player and official
- Peter Turayb. 1972Slovak musician
- Fatmata Turayb. 1987SLSirra Leone model
- Gregg TurayUSAmerican seaman and rescuer of Vietnamese refugees
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 29 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 98 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Turay?
- We estimate roughly 1.6 thousand people bear Turay (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Turay have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.3 thousand people bear Turay in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled turay.
- How common is Turay compared with other names?
- In Sierra Leone, Turay is the 11th most common surname of 472 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Turay mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ay gibi güzel genç.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Turay” — the 11th most common surname in Sierra Leone. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.