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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : habitational name, most probably from Torano Castello in Cosenza, named with the Latin personal name Thurius. There are also numerous places named Turano in Lombardy and Tuscany, but these are unlikely to have contributed greatly to the American surname, since most of the migration to the U.S. was from southern Italy.

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