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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : from an agent derivative of Middle High German tiuren ‘to assess’, hence an occupational name for a tax assessor.
  • South German : perhaps a habitational name from any of the places called Theuern, in Bavaria, Thuringia, and Silesia, or from the Silesian place name Taurer, Thauraw.

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