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    The surname Toor

    A surname, carried by 1,393 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex T600

    Toor: #19,398 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Toor #19,398, 1,393 people Toor: #19,398 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Toor #19,398, 1,393 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Toor is more common than 88% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,393 people named Toor in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 221,641 Americans. That is up 56% since 2000, when the Census counted 891.

    #19,398
    rank among US surnames
    1,393
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +56.3%
    change since 2000 (was #25,908)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,390Rifkin1,394221,482
    #19,398Zaborowski1,393221,641

    Who is named Toor

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

    77% of people named Toor identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 16% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.5% as two or more races.

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 77%
    • White (not Hispanic) 16%
    • Two or more races 4.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Toor

    Toor has the Soundex code T600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T600.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Toor?
    1,393 people in the United States had the surname Toor in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,641 Americans. It ranked 19,398th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Toor?
    In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Toor identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 16% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Toor getting more or less common?
    More common. 891 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,393 in 2010, up 56%.