The Tekin surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 310 people carried this name — #64,200 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 909,100 people counted. That is up 61% from 192 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 600 people named Tekin live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
341 people named Tekin live in Switzerland.
They live in 17 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 80 people named Tekin.
Most of them — 61 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 8 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
291 people named Tekin are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Tekin in American newspapers,
1900–1963.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 5,052 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Tekin,
with a public archive behind them.
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Gürsel Tekin 1964– · businessperson -
Yusuf Tekin 1970– · association football player -
Özlem Tekin 1971– · actor -
Adnan Tekin 1972– · politician -
Fatih Tekin 1976– · singer -
Sungurtekin Bey 1191– · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 108 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Tekin.
- Tedaldi 121 · U.S. census
- Tedeschi 2,321 · U.S. census
- Tedesco 6,133 · U.S. census
- Teixeira 8,895 · U.S. census
- Tejedor 173 · U.S. census
- Tejero 372 · U.S. census
- Telemaque 425 · U.S. census
- Tell 1,536 · U.S. census
- Tella 435 · U.S. census
- Telle 356 · U.S. census
- Tellechea 364 · U.S. census
- Tellez 22,494 · U.S. census
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