Given name & surname
Toprak
“dust, dry earth”
Toprak is a unisex given name. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Toprak goes back to Ottoman Turkish توپرق, meaning “dust, dry earth.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Toprak through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 50
- 50 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2015.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Toprak’s family of names
In Greek usage, Toprak as a surname is a transliteration of Τοπράκ.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Toprak
- Toprak RazgatlıoğluTurkish motorcycle racer (born 1996)
- Toprak SağlamTurkish actor (born 1985)
- Toprak YalçınerTurkish-Dutch actor (born 1987)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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