Turk

9,845 people in the United States were counted with the surname Turk in the 2020 census, making it the 3,537th most common in the country. That is about one person in 30,400.

By the numbers

People: 9,845
Rank: 3,537th
How common: 1 in 30,400
Per 100,000: 3.3

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Turk described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.2%
Black, not Hispanic 9.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Turk

Danilo Türk (born 1952)President of Slovenia from 2007 to 2012
Volker Türk (born 1965)United Nations human rights chief
Hala Al Turk (born 2002)Bahraini actress and singer
Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750–1813)composer, organist, and music professor of the Classical Period
Ahmet Türk (born 1942)Turkish statesperson

People named Turk with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Turk

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.