Turk Family History
Turk Name Meaning
English (mainly Gloucestershire), Dutch, and German (also
Türk): from Middle English, Old French turc, Middle
High and Low German Turc ‘Turk’, from Turkish türk.
In theory this could be an ethnic name but, both in England and
northwest Europe, it is generally a nickname for a person with black
hair and a swarthy complexion or a cruel, rowdy, or unruly person. The
Dutch and German surname also represents a house name, derived from
the use of a picture of a Turk as a house sign. It is also found as a
nickname for someone who had taken part in the wars against the Turks.English: from a medieval personal name, a back-formation from
Turkel, misanalyzed as containing the Old French diminutive
suffix -el.Scottish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic
Mac Tuirc, a patronymic from the byname Torc ‘boar’.Jewish (Ashkenazic): ethnic name denoting someone from
Turkey or anywhere in the Ottoman Empire, or a nickname for someone
thought to resemble a Turk.Americanized form of the Greek
ethnic name Tourkos ‘Turk’. See also Turco.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Turk
Name Distribution of Turk Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Turk families
 98 - 193  33 - 97 |
 1 - 32  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Turk families
|
76 - 150 26 - 75 |
1 - 25 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Turk families
|
10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Turk census records
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Turk Family Origin
Turk Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Turk
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Turk Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Turk census records
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Turk Civil War Service Records
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