as a Last Name
- 12,719
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Turpin
Meaning & Origins
English and French: from an Anglo-Norman French form of the Old Norse personal name þórfinnr, composed of the elements þórr, the name of the god of thunder in Scandinavian mythology (see Thor) + the ethnic name Finnr ‘Finn’. This may have absorbed another name, Turpius, Turpinus (from Latin turpis ‘ugly’, ‘base’), one of the self-abasing names adopted as a mark of humility by the early Christians. It was borne by the archbishop of Rheims in the Charlemagne legend.
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 12,719
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Turpin per capita
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