Turkey
loc · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Turkey is a name, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Turkish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: country, Europe, Asia.
- INIndia1 in 118M◐
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- 3.8M ●
- Sources
- 16 ●
in 5 countries
88 records
Official registry-verified
Meaning & origin●
country, Europe, Asia
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 42 | 76 rec. | — | 40K | Turkey | 16 |
| ES Spain | — | — | — | 7 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | — | — | 3 | — | — |
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Languages●
- Turkish1.5M40%
- English14K1%
- Arabic2.5K1%
- German1.7K1%
- Spanish7581%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 1,542,662 | 40% |
| English | 13,928 | 1% |
| Arabic | 2,492 | 1% |
| German | 1,743 | 1% |
| Spanish | 758 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Turkey is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
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.
Evidence●
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 40K | #371 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 19 | #11,628 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
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 Turkey?
- Our records include 3,789,336 bearers of Turkey across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Turkey have the most bearers?
- Turkey is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled turkey.
- What does the name Turkey mean?
- Recorded meaning: country, Europe, Asia
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Turkey”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.