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Turner

in Massachusetts

There are 3,258 people with the last name "Turner" in Massachusetts.

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Ranking in Massachusetts

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Turner 121
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  1. is 117th most common Gray
  2. is 118th most common Stone
  3. is 119th most common Gallagher
  4. is 120th most common Richard
  5. is 121st most common Turner
  6. is 122nd most common Gordon
  7. is 123rd most common Howard
  8. is 124th most common Wong
  9. is 125th most common Butler

Most Common First Names for Turner

John, Robert, Michael, William, James, David, Richard, Stephen, Joseph, Paul

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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