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    The surname Tole

    A surname, carried by 540 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex T400

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tole is more common than 75% of them.

    Origin

    * As an English surname, variant of Toll and Towle. * As an Albanian surname, from a short form of Apostol.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 540 people named Tole in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 571,751 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 543.

    #40,494
    rank among US surnames
    540
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.6%
    change since 2000 (was #38,320)

    Who is named Tole

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

    79% of people named Tole identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 79%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 14%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 3.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Tole

    Tole has the Soundex code T400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T400.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Tole come from?
    * As an English surname, variant of Toll and Towle. * As an Albanian surname, from a short form of Apostol.
    How common is the surname Tole?
    540 people in the United States had the surname Tole in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 571,751 Americans. It ranked 40,494th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tole?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Tole identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Tole getting more or less common?
    Less common. 543 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 540 in 2010, down 0.6%.