as a Last Name
- 376,178
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Turner
Meaning & Origins
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.
| 49th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 376,178
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Turner per capita
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