Last Name TURTON

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Meaning Local: Of Turton, a township in the parish of Bolton, county Lancaster. The surname has crossed the borders into Yorkshire and ramified strongly there.
From Turton, in the hundred of Shelfold, in Lancashire, probably so called from Saxon, 'Tur' or 'Tor,' a tower, or 'Thur,' or 'Thor,' one of the Saxon deities, and 'ton' - either a town having a tower, or sacred to Thor.
Origin English, Jewish, Irish, South african

Rank 25,945 (2000 US census) 25,950 (1990 US census)
Count 889 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 84.25%, or 749 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 10.57%, or 94 total occurrences, as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.57%, or 14 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 3.37%, or 30 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Shortest last names

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