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    The surname Tower

    A place surname, carried by 4,486 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex T600

    Tower: #7,421 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Tower #7,421, 4,486 people Tower: #7,421 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Tower #7,421, 4,486 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tower is more common than 95.4% of them.

    Origin

    A habitational surname.; Alternative form of Towers.

    Tower is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,486 people named Tower in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 68,824 Americans. That is up 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,392.

    #7,421
    rank among US surnames
    4,486
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.1%
    change since 2000 (was #7,034)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,413Bonney4,49168,748
    #7,418Breslin4,49068,763
    #7,420DiGiovanni4,48768,809
    #7,421Tower4,48668,824
    #7,426Nealy4,48568,840
    #7,429Kiger4,48468,855
    #7,430Marinelli4,48368,870

    Who is named Tower

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

    92% of people named Tower identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Towers

    4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • John Tower
      American senator from Texas and chairman of the Tower Commission (1925-1991)
    • Harold Tower
      American rower (1911–1994)
    • Joan Tower
      American composer, concert pianist and conductor, born 1938
    • Virginia Norwood
      American aerospace engineer, inventor, and physicist, 1927–2023

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Tower

    Tower 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 Tower?
    4,486 people in the United States had the surname Tower in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 68,824 Americans. It ranked 7,421st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tower?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Tower identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Tower?
    John Tower, American senator from Texas and chairman of the Tower Commission (1925-1991), followed by Harold Tower.
    Where is the surname Tower most common?
    Wikidata records people named Tower in the United States.
    What type of surname is Tower?
    Tower is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Tower getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,392 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,486 in 2010, up 2.1%.