McTurk

English

Etymology

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic and Northern Irish Mac Toirc (“son of Torc”), a byname from torc (“wild boar”).

Proper noun

McTurk (plural McTurks)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, McTurk is the 2624^th most common surname in Scotland, belonging to 228 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “McTurk”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 562.