Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch and German (also T(h)ürck) : from a vocabulary word meaning ‘Turk’, a nickname for someone who had either fought against the Turks or one who was thought to resemble a Turk in some way, or a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a Turk.
- German (Alsace) : habitational name from shortened forms of place names such as Türkheim.
- This name is recorded in Beverwijck in New Netherland (Albany, NY) in the mid 17th century. See <xref>Wessels</xref>.