How common is the surname Tow?

1,910 people in the United States had the surname Tow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 161,647 Americans. It ranked 15,355th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Tow?

In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Tow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Tow getting more or less common?

More common. 1,893 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,910 in 2010, up 0.9%.

The surname Tow

A surname, carried by 1,910 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex T000

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tow is more common than 90.5% of them.

Origin

* As an English surname, variant of Tough, from the adjective tough. Also compare the Scottish surname Tulloch. * As a Chinese surname, converged from several Romanizations, such as 陶 (Dao), 曹 (cáo) (Cao), 杜 (dù) (Du), 蘇 /苏 (sū) (Su).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,910 people named Tow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 161,647 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,893.

#15,355

rank among US surnames

1,910

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+0.9%

change since 2000 (was #14,457)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,347	McMiller	1,911	161,562
#15,355	Lisi	1,910	161,647
#15,363	Delany	1,909	161,732

Who is named Tow

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

79% of people named Tow identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 79%
Asian and Pacific Islander 14%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.7%
Two or more races 2.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Tow

Tow has the Soundex code T000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T000.

Questions

Where does the surname Tow come from?: * As an English surname, variant of Tough, from the adjective tough. Also compare the Scottish surname Tulloch. * As a Chinese surname, converged from several Romanizations, such as 陶 (Dao), 曹 (cáo) (Cao), 杜 (dù) (Du), 蘇 /苏 (sū) (Su).
How common is the surname Tow?: 1,910 people in the United States had the surname Tow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 161,647 Americans. It ranked 15,355th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Tow?: In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Tow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Tow getting more or less common?: More common. 1,893 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,910 in 2010, up 0.9%.