How common is the surname Towers?

4,392 people in the United States had the surname Towers in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,297 Americans. It ranked 7,565th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Towers?

Constance Towers, American actress, followed by Alice Towers.

Where is the surname Towers most common?

Wikidata records people named Towers in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Is the surname Towers getting more or less common?

More common. 4,248 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,392 in 2010, up 3.4%.

The surname Towers

A place surname, carried by 4,392 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Towers is more common than 95.3% of them.

Origin

From towers.

Towers 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 4,392 people named Towers in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 70,297 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,248.

#7,565

rank among US surnames

4,392

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

+3.4%

change since 2000 (was #7,242)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,558	Toma	4,399	70,185
#7,559	Knepp	4,398	70,201
#7,560	Eiler	4,397	70,217
#7,561	Otten	4,396	70,233
#7,562	Hertel	4,395	70,249
#7,563	Tessier	4,394	70,265
#7,564	Arbuckle	4,393	70,281

Who is named Towers

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

81% of people named Towers identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 81%
Black (not Hispanic) 12%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.9%
Two or more races 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Towerss

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Constance Towers
American actress, born 1933
Alice Towers
British cyclist, born 2002

Notable Towerss come mostly from the United States (1) and the United Kingdom (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Tower

Surnames that sound like Towers

Torres

Towers has the Soundex code T620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T620.

Questions

Where does the surname Towers come from?: From towers.
How common is the surname Towers?: 4,392 people in the United States had the surname Towers in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,297 Americans. It ranked 7,565th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Towers?: In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Towers identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Towers?: Constance Towers, American actress, followed by Alice Towers.
Where is the surname Towers most common?: Wikidata records people named Towers in the United States and the United Kingdom.
What type of surname is Towers?: Towers is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Towers getting more or less common?: More common. 4,248 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,392 in 2010, up 3.4%.
What are other spellings of Towers?: Tower.