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    The surname Tolen

    A surname, carried by 1,064 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex T450

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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). Tolen is more common than 85.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,064 people named Tolen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 290,174 Americans. That is up 7.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 986.

    #23,768
    rank among US surnames
    1,064
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.9%
    change since 2000 (was #23,903)

    Who is named Tolen

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

    57% of people named Tolen identified as white (not Hispanic), 36% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 57%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 36%
    • Two or more races 3.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Tolen

    Tolen has the Soundex code T450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T450.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Tolen?
    1,064 people in the United States had the surname Tolen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 290,174 Americans. It ranked 23,768th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tolen?
    In the 2010 Census, 57% of people named Tolen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 36% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Tolen getting more or less common?
    More common. 986 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,064 in 2010, up 7.9%.