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turpin Name Meaning and History

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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The turpin name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the turpin family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of turpin Families in the US in 1920
Number of turpin families
 62-121
 21-61		 1-20
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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