The turner Surname

turner Name Meaning and History

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.
English: nickname for a fast runner, from Middle English turnen ‘to turn’ + ‘hare’.
English: occupational name for an official in charge of a tournament, Old French tornei (in origin akin to 1).
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from a place called Turno or Turna, in Poland and Belarus, or from the city of Tarnów (Yiddish Turne) in Poland.
Translated or Americanized form of any of various other like-meaning or like-sounding Jewish surnames.
South German (T(h)ürner): occupational name for a guard in a tower or a topographic name from Middle High German turn ‘tower’, or a habitational name for someone from any of various places named Thurn, for example in Austria.

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The turner name in History

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turner Family Facts

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Distribution of turner Families in the US in 1920

Number of turner families

1249-2496

417-1248

1-416

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Marraige	libbie63	0
Turner/Brunker	Joannfill77	2
UKBMD index TURNER	DUllmann0216	2
Ernest William Turner born 6 July 1902 in Farnham	mon19811	0
Turner Family of Derbyshire	Ian Broadhead	4
family	allenwandaandrews	3
Turner DNA Project Results Chart Updated 5-07-2008	Gail_Blancett	0
family	allenwandaandrews	0
Turner family London - with Norfolk, UK roots	Greenman22	0
William Turner in Buckinghamshire	1224855	0

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