How common is the surname Toews?

1,456 people in the United States had the surname Toews in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 212,051 Americans. It ranked 18,808th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Toews?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Toews identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

How do you pronounce Toews?

Toews is /teɪvz/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Toews getting more or less common?

More common. 1,364 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,456 in 2010, up 6.7%.

The surname Toews

A surname, carried by 1,456 people in the United States.

Pronounced /teɪvz/ 2 syllables Soundex T200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Toews is more common than 88.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,456 people named Toews in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 212,051 Americans. That is up 6.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,364.

#18,808

rank among US surnames

1,456

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+6.7%

change since 2000 (was #18,626)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,804	Merrow	1,457	211,905
#18,808	Dauer	1,456	212,051

Who is named Toews

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

96% of people named Toews identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Two or more races 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Toews

Tews

Toews has the Soundex code T200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T200.

Questions

How common is the surname Toews?: 1,456 people in the United States had the surname Toews in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 212,051 Americans. It ranked 18,808th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Toews?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Toews identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
How do you pronounce Toews?: Toews is /teɪvz/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Toews getting more or less common?: More common. 1,364 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,456 in 2010, up 6.7%.