What nationality is the surname Toren?
Toren Name Meaning and History 1.DUTCH(Van Toren): habitational or topographic name from Middle Dutch “to(o)rn”, “tor(r)en” ‘”tower”’, which has given rise to many place names (compare Torre). 2.SWEDISH: ornamental name from the personal name Tor (see Thor 3) + the common adjectival suffix -en, from Latin -enius ‘descendant of’. 3. JEWISH (Ashkenazic): habitational name from the city of Torun in Poland, called Thorn in German. www.familysearch.org has listings in:Connecticut; Quebec, Canada; The Netherlands; Wisconsin; Bolivia (S. America); Denmark; Belgium; Ecuador (S.Amer.); Italy; Alabama; Georgia; Holland; Illinois; Indiana; Devon, England; Denmark; Cambridge, England; Middlesex, England; Bedford, England; Nottingham, England; Scotland; Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean; Finland; Germany; Mexico; Missouri; Norway; and other South American countries of Uruguay; Chile; Peru, & Argentina; and Spain. Variations in spelling include: TARRING ; TYRON; TYRONE; TARIN; TERRIEN ; VAN TOREN; THI
