as a Last Name
- 14,178
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Thurston
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. from a medieval personal name, Old Norse þórsteinn, composed of the elements þórr, name of the Scandinavian god of thunder (see Thor) + steinn ‘stone’, ‘rock’, hence ‘altar of Thor’ or perhaps ‘hammer of Thor’. 2. habitational name from Thurston in Suffolk, so called from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name þóri (see Thor) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
| 2,223rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 14,178
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Thurston per capita
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