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Type Surname
Usage French
Meaning & History
1. Variant of Tower, with later -s.
2. Habitational name for someone from Tours in Eure-et-Loire, northern France, so called from the Gaulish tribal name Turones, of uncertain etymology.
2. Habitational name for someone from Tours in Eure-et-Loire, northern France, so called from the Gaulish tribal name Turones, of uncertain etymology.