Thurman Family History
Thurman Name Meaning
English (East Midlands): from the Middle English personal name
Thurmond, Old Norse þormundr, composed of the
elements þórr, name of the Norse god of thunder (see
Thor) + mundr ‘protection’. Reaney and Wilson suggest
that, Thurmond having been an uncommon personal name, this
surname may also represent the commoner name Thurmod,
Thormod with the second element derived from Old Norse
móþr ‘mind’, ‘courage’, but assimilated to -mund
(a common second element in other compound names).German
(Thurmann): habitational name for someone from a place called
Thur (see Thur).German (Thurmann): occupational
name for a watchman, from Middle Low German torn(e)man
(torn(e) ‘tower’) or Middle High German turn,
turm ‘tower’ + man ‘man’.Respelling of Jewish
(from Ukraine) Turman, a nickname from Yiddish turman
‘inconstant man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Thurman Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Thurman families
 153 - 304  52 - 152 |
 1 - 51  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Thurman families
|
110 - 217 37 - 109 |
1 - 36 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Thurman last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Thurman Family Origin
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Thurman Family Occupations
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