The Turchetti Last Name

Turchetti is best understood together with Turco: both are Italian spellings of a single family name. Read literally, Turchetti points to “Turk”. Turchetti carries the diminutive ending -etti, so it began as a ‘little’ or affectionate form of Turco. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Related forms: Turchi.

French civil records give 105 births under the name Turchetti from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1961–1970.

Arms linked to Turco and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Turchetti surname pack.