Given name Turberville - what nicknames or variants?

[Kate-Birchtree]

I've stumbled across the given name Turberville, and I'm trying to figure out if it has any known variants or nicknames!

Does anybody have real-world or general genealogical experience with this name?!

[Neale1961]

I think of Turbeville as a surname. If it has been used as a christian name, it may well have origins as a surname in the family - just as surnames are passed down as second or middle names.


Are you looking at Jacob Turberville Smith, b 1810 Staffordshire - who later became Turberville Smith?

[Kate-Birchtree]

I think of Turbeville as a surname. If it has been used as a christian name, it may well have origins as a surname in the family - just as surnames are passed down as second or middle names.

I agree - it definitely sounds more like a surname to me! In this context, it was given to a (potential) ancestor as a first name. Definitely not common, from what I've seen!

[mckha489]

I’ve got three generations of Turberville as a forename in one of my side branches.

3,472 forename results On FindMyPast. Say 5 duplicates per individual on average. That’s still quite a few.

9,968 results Surname results on FindMyPast.   

[maddys52]

7 Turberville's if you search FreeBMD from 1850 to 1895 using just first name in the search.

[Kate-Birchtree]

I didn't expect there would be so many!

There are some interesting transcription errors in the census records I've seen so far, too. (e.g. "Turkerville")

[newbie]

I thought a nickname could possibly be Tubbs?