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Turner

in Tennessee

There are 9,296 people with the last name "Turner" in Tennessee.

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Ranking in Tennessee

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Turner 34
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  1. is 30th most common Roberts
  2. is 31st most common Robinson
  3. is 32nd most common Lee
  4. is 33rd most common Green
  5. is 34th most common Turner
  6. is 35th most common Baker
  7. is 36th most common Scott
  8. is 37th most common Adams
  9. is 38th most common Cox

Most Common First Names for Turner

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

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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