Given name & surname
Turk
“a man from Turkey”
Turk is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “a man from Turkey.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “a man from Turkey.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Middle English Turke, from Old French Turc, from Medieval Latin Turcus, from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος, from Classical Persian تُرْک, from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1955. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Turk through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 51
- 51 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 7 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 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 182 as a first name in 2020; 9,845 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Turk’s family of names
Turk has a related form in Turc. Turk has a related form in Turck. In English usage, Turk as a surname has a related form in TURKE.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Turk
- Turk MurphyAmerican jazz trombonist, band leader (1915–1987)
- TurkAmerican rapper from Louisianaborn 1981
- Turk Van LakeAmerican musician (1918–2002)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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