About the name Thurman
Thurman belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Thurman first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #205 in 1888, and in 2024 5 babies received the name — 16,391 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.