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    The surname Tonn

    A surname, carried by 1,629 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex T500

    Tonn: #17,345 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Tonn #17,345, 1,629 people Tonn: #17,345 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Tonn #17,345, 1,629 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tonn is more common than 89.3% of them.

    Origin

    From the German surname, from the noun Tonne (“cask, barrel”).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,629 people named Tonn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 189,531 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,629.

    #17,345
    rank among US surnames
    1,629
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #16,283)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,337Shake1,630189,414
    #17,345Estey1,629189,531

    Who is named Tonn

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

    92% of people named Tonn identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 3.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Tonn

    Tonn has the Soundex code T500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T500.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Tonn come from?
    From the German surname, from the noun Tonne (“cask, barrel”).
    How common is the surname Tonn?
    1,629 people in the United States had the surname Tonn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 189,531 Americans. It ranked 17,345th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tonn?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Tonn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Tonn getting more or less common?
    About as common. 1,629 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,629 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.