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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : alternative spelling of Turov, a habitational name for someone from a place called Turov in Belarus. The place is named with tur ‘aurochs’ (ultimately cognate with Latin taurus ‘bull’).

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