Family name origins & meanings
- Norwegian : habitational name from any of six farmsteads, mostly in southeastern Norway, so named from Old Norse tún ‘enclosure’, ‘yard’.
- German : habitational name from Thune near Braunschweig or Thune on the river Thune, or from Thun near Hannover, all named with Middle Low German tūn ‘(woven) fence’, ‘hedge’, ‘enclosure’.