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Turner

in Rhode Island

There are 543 people with the last name "Turner" in Rhode Island.

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Ranking in Rhode Island

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Turner 127
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  1. is 123rd most common Ross
  2. is 124th most common Carter
  3. is 125th most common Hopkins
  4. is 126th most common Morgan
  5. is 127th most common Turner
  6. is 128th most common Cole
  7. is 129th most common Gomez
  8. is 130th most common Kennedy
  9. is 131st most common Martins

Most Common First Names for Turner

Robert, John, Richard, James, Michael, Patricia, William, Charles, David, Gary

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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