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Turner

in New Jersey

There are 3,521 people with the last name "Turner" in New Jersey.

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Ranking in New Jersey

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Turner 108
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  1. is 104th most common Wang
  2. is 105th most common Watson
  3. is 106th most common Kennedy
  4. is 107th most common Richardson
  5. is 108th most common Turner
  6. is 109th most common Vargas
  7. is 110th most common Peterson
  8. is 111th most common Bailey
  9. is 112th most common Castro

Most Common First Names for Turner

Robert, James, John, William, Thomas, David, Michael, Charles, Mary, Barbara

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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