Tor Family History

Catalan: habitational name from any of the places called Tor from tor an old variant of torre ‘tower’. Polish: perhaps from the word tor ‘track’ torować ‘to clear to show the way’ or a variant of Tur. Alternatively an adaptation of German Thor.

Scandinavian and German: variant of Thor. Turkish: ornamental name or nickname from tor ‘inexperienced’ regionally or archaically also e.g. ‘shy’ or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman from tor ‘fishing net’.

Turkish (Tör): ornamental name or perhaps a status name from archaic or regional tör ‘the best place in a house or room where respectable people sit’.