The surname Tur
A Catalan place surname, carried by 617 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex T600
Origin
Catalan origin
Two main origins: * Borrowed from Catalan Tur, probably a topographic surname from tur (“tufa, porous limestone”). * Borrowed from Polish Tur, from the nickname tur (“aurochs”).
Tur is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 39 Catalan surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 617 people named Tur in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 500,398 Americans. That is up 45% since 2000, when the Census counted 426.
Who is named Tur
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
47% of people named Tur identified as white (not Hispanic), 43% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 6.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- White (not Hispanic) 47%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 43%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 6.0%
- Black (not Hispanic) 2.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Tur has the Soundex code T600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T600.
Other Catalan surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Tur come from?
- Two main origins: * Borrowed from Catalan Tur, probably a topographic surname from tur (“tufa, porous limestone”). * Borrowed from Polish Tur, from the nickname tur (“aurochs”).
- How common is the surname Tur?
- 617 people in the United States had the surname Tur in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 500,398 Americans. It ranked 36,286th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tur?
- In the 2010 Census, 47% of people named Tur identified as white (not Hispanic), and 43% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Tur?
- Tur is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Tur getting more or less common?
- More common. 426 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 617 in 2010, up 45%.