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Turki

Boys' name

Turk, Turkish

Turki has been given to 135 babies in the U.S. since 2010. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2014, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Turki, 2024

1 in 418,000

Turki over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Turki: meaning, origin, and history

Turk, Turkish

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Turki means

Turki means “Turk, Turkish”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Turki is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtur.kiːj/ for Turki.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 135 boys were recorded with the name Turki between 2010 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,378 in 2014.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Turki?

Turki had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Turki sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Turki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Turkis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Turki was born before 2016 — so the typical Turki is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
80.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
135
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 80.0% of all recorded uses (108).

Is Turki rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2014 (23)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,378
2014

Spellings of Turki

Turki is not the most common spelling — Burke is, with 32.7% against Turki's 1.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Turki around the world

Where Turki ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2016
    #4,023
    in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Turki by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,378
2014
Peak year
2014
23 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
135
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Turki

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Turki

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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