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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of various places called Turowo or Turów, named with Polish tur ‘aurochs’.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from Turov in Belarus (see Turoff).

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