Keturah

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Keturah

Say it: keh-TOOR-uh

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Meaning

Hebrew Qeturah, usually connected with qetoret 'incense'.

Likelythe main view, with some doubt.

Found in Puritan and 18th-century New England records.

Its wave through time

Most used in the 1980s

In the United States

3,339 babies given this name since 1890
At its height in 1982, about 1 in 18,200 girls
34 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

Hebrew Early Christian English American

The family of the name

Other spellings: Ketura

French	Kétura
Spanish	Cetura
German	Ketura
Hebrew	Ketura

Famous bearers

Keturah, wife of Abraham after Sarah's death

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Where this comes from

The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
Puritan church and town records of England and New England
Colonial records of the Americas
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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