How common is the surname Toft?

1,344 people in the United States had the surname Toft in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 229,721 Americans. It ranked 19,955th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Toft?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Toft identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Toft getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,411 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,344 in 2010, down 4.7%.

The surname Toft

A surname, carried by 1,344 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex T130

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Toft is more common than 87.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,344 people named Toft in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 229,721 Americans. That is down 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,411.

#19,955

rank among US surnames

1,344

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-4.7%

change since 2000 (was #18,188)

Who is named Toft

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

96% of people named Toft identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

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 Toft

Taft

Toft has the Soundex code T130, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T130.

Questions

How common is the surname Toft?: 1,344 people in the United States had the surname Toft in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 229,721 Americans. It ranked 19,955th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Toft?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Toft identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Toft getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,411 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,344 in 2010, down 4.7%.