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First name origin & meaning:

Old English: Thor's hill

First name variations: Thorald, Thorbert, Thorburn, Thorley, Thurmon, Thurman, Thurmond, Thurber, Thormond, Torold, Terrell

Last name origin & meaning:

English: habitational name from Thurlow in Suffolk, recorded in Domesday Book as Tritlawa and Tridlauua, and apparently named with Old English þr̄ð ‘troop’, ‘assembly’ + hlāw ‘burial mound’, ‘hill’.