Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : metonymic occupational name for a turner, from torno, an old word for a lathe (modern Italian tornio), or a habitational name from a place named with this word in the sense ‘curved or rounded hill’.
- Italian : from a short form of the personal name Ritorno.
- Spanish (often Del Torno) : habitational name from El Torno in Cáceres.
- Altered spelling of a German or Polish habitational name from Turnów in Poland.