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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : topographic name from Middle Dutch turre, torre ‘tower’ + man ‘man’, or possibly a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a tower.
  • Variant of German Thurmann (see Thurman).

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