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The surname Tolar

A surname, carried by 2,279 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T460

Tolar: #13,370 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Tolar #13,370, 2,279 people Tolar: #13,370 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Tolar #13,370, 2,279 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tolar is more common than 91.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,279 people named Tolar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 135,474 Americans. That is up 7.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,117.

#13,370
rank among US surnames
2,279
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+7.7%
change since 2000 (was #13,226)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#13,368Isler2,280135,415
#13,370Hatmaker2,279135,474
#13,375Picone2,278135,534
#13,376Ferland2,277135,593

Who is named Tolar

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

87% of people named Tolar identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 87%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 7.6%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
  • Two or more races 1.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Tolar

Tolar has the Soundex code T460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T460.

Questions

How common is the surname Tolar?
2,279 people in the United States had the surname Tolar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 135,474 Americans. It ranked 13,370th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Tolar?
In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Tolar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Tolar getting more or less common?
More common. 2,117 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,279 in 2010, up 7.7%.