Last name: TUR

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Last name frequency

TUR : This last name is indexed 28,429 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

TUR : 1: Catalan: probably a topographic name from tur ‘tufa’ ‘porous limestone’. This name is very common in the Pitusses (Eivissa and Formentera) and Balearic Islands (Majorca and Minorca).2: Polish Belorussian and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from the nickname Tur meaning ‘aurochs’ ultimately cognate with Latin taurus ‘bull’ (see Toro). As a Jewish name it is generally artificial.3: Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from Tury in Belarus.4: Turkish: ornamental name or nickname from tur ‘young man’ or homonymous regional or archaic words meaning ‘earnings’ and ‘mountain’. The surname can also be a variant of Turan.

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