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Turner

in Virginia

There are 10,539 people with the last name "Turner" in Virginia.

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Ranking in Virginia

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Turner 27
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  1. is 23rd most common Robinson
  2. is 24th most common Wright
  3. is 25th most common Walker
  4. is 26th most common Scott
  5. is 27th most common Turner
  6. is 28th most common Campbell
  7. is 29th most common Allen
  8. is 30th most common King
  9. is 31st most common Hill

Most Common First Names for Turner

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

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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