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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : regional name for someone from the Touraine region.
  • In Canada, Turenne is recorded as a secondary surname for a <xref>Blanchard</xref> from Poitiers; it is documented in Trois Rivières, Quebec, in 1727, in the form Turaine.

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