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thurston Name Meaning and History

  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 tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of thurston Families in the US in 1920
Number of thurston families
 151-300
 51-150		 1-50
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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