At a Glance: Name: Turku – Meaning: market place – Origin: Finnish (from Old East Slavic) – Gender: Unisex – Pronunciation: TOOR-koo
Turku is a Finnish (from Old East Slavic) unisex name meaning “market place”. It appears in our list of 175+ European City Baby Names With Old-World Elegance.
Meaning & Origin of Turku
Meaning: Market place.
Origin: Finnish (from Old East Slavic).
A common claim: Sometimes said to come from a 'Turkic' word for marketplace, because of the similar sound. Actually: Not Turkic. Wiktionary traces it to an Old East Slavic word for 'market place' borrowed into Finnish.
Source: Wiktionary.
How to Pronounce Turku
Phonetic: TOOR-koo IPA: /ˈturku/
Popularity of Turku
Turku doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.
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