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’.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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