Thomure
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Frequency: (268)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
French: variant of Thomire, Thomyre, which is probably derived from a female personal name of classical antiquity, borne, in the form Tomyris, by a queen of the Scythians who defeated the Persian king Cyrus.
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