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Turner

in Alabama

There are 9,664 people with the last name "Turner" in Alabama.

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Ranking in Alabama

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Turner 22
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  1. is 18th most common Robinson
  2. is 19th most common Hill
  3. is 20th most common Hall
  4. is 21st most common Lee
  5. is 22nd most common Turner
  6. is 23rd most common King
  7. is 24th most common Parker
  8. is 25th most common Mitchell
  9. is 26th most common Green

Most Common First Names for Turner

James, Robert, John, William, Charles, Michael, David, Mary, Willie, Billy

Meaning & History

English and Scottish: occupational name for a maker of objects of wood, metal, or bone by turning on a lathe, from Anglo-Norman French torner (Old French tornier, Latin tornarius, a derivative of tornus ‘lathe’). The surname may also derive from any of various other senses of Middle English turn, for example a turnspit, a translator or interpreter, or a tumbler.

English: nickname for a fast runner, from Middle English turnen ‘to turn’ + ‘hare’.

English: occupational name for an official in charge of a tournament, Old French tornei (in origin akin to 1).

Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from a place called Turno or Turna, in Poland and Belarus, or from the city of Tarnów (Yiddish Turne) in Poland.

Translated or Americanized form of any of various other like-meaning or likesounding Jewish surnames.

South German (T(h)ürner): occupational name for a guard in a tower or a topographic name from Middle High German turn ‘tower’, or a habitational name for someone from any of various places named Thurn, for example in Austria.

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