as a First Name
Transferred use of the surname, in origin an occupational name for someone who made articles of wood, bone, or metal by turning them on a lathe. Among Blacks in the United States it is sometimes used as a given name in honour of Nat Turner, a slave who in 1831 led an insurrection against local landowners before being captured and executed.
| 3,452nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,431
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Turner per capita
- 2007
- marked the height of its popularity
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100%
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0.43%
30-54
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9%
13-29
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82%
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