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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : metonymic occupational name for a turner, from torno, an old word for a lathe (modern Italian tornio), or a habitational name from a place named with this word in the sense ‘curved or rounded hill’.
  • Italian : from a short form of the personal name Ritorno.
  • Spanish (often Del Torno) : habitational name from El Torno in Cáceres.
  • Altered spelling of a German or Polish habitational name from Turnów in Poland.

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