as a Last Name
- 11,311
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Turley
Meaning & Origins
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Toirdealbhaigh, a patronymic from the personal name Toirdhealbhach, a personal name meaning ‘like Thor’ or ‘like thunder’, composed of the Old Norse name þórr (see Thor) + Gaelic dealbhach ‘like’, ‘in the shape of’. Compare McCurley, from the lenited form.
| 3,197th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 11,311
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Turley per capita
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