Turgeman
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Turgeman is a surname, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Hebrew, written in the Latin script.
- QAQatar1 in 870◐
- ILIsrael1 in 1.8K
- MAMorocco1 in 7.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.8K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 73 ●
- 1 in 1.8K ◐
across 4 countries
recorded for this name
37K records
Official registry-verified
Israel
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled תורגמן in IL Israel, MA Morocco, QA Qatar and 5 more and תורג'מן in NZ New Zealand, IR Iran.
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #63 | 4,738 | 31K rec. | 1 in 1.8K | 4.7K | תורגמן | 57 |
| MA Morocco | #200 | 1,929 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | תורגמן | 3 |
| QA Qatar | #67 | 1,871 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | תורגמן | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,092 | 1K rec. | — | listed | Turgeman | 73 |
| FR France | — | 222 | 222 rec. | — | — | תורגמן | 3 |
| DZ Algeria | — | 181 | 181 rec. | — | — | תורגמן | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 176 | 179 rec. | — | — | תורג'מן | 1 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 134 | 134 rec. | — | — | תורגמן | 3 |
| TN Tunisia | — | 113 | 113 rec. | — | — | תורגמן | 2 |
| EG Egypt | — | 42 | 47 rec. | — | — | תורגמן | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | — | 40 | 15 rec. | — | — | Turgeman | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 31 | 40 rec. | — | — | Turgeman | 13 |
Roughly 4.7K people in Israel bear this name (about 1 in 1.8K). 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●
- English1.1K46%
- Hebrew71529%
- French1325%
- Spanish1185%
- Turkish763%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,113 | 46% |
| Hebrew | 715 | 29% |
| French | 132 | 5% |
| Spanish | 118 | 5% |
| Turkish | 76 | 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●
- Ahuva Turgemanb. 1962ILIsraeli businesswoman, CEO of BBB Group
- Dor Turgemanb. 2003ILIsraeli footballer
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #158,260 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #172,525 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #256,977 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 8 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Turgeman?
- We estimate roughly 4.8 thousand people bear Turgeman (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Turgeman have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.7 thousand people bear Turgeman in Israel, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled תורגמן.
- How common is Turgeman compared with other names?
- In Israel, Turgeman is the 63rd most common surname of 235,373 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, “Turgeman” — the 63rd most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.