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    The surname Towle

    A surname, carried by 4,156 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex T400

    Towle: #7,961 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Towle #7,961, 4,156 people Towle: #7,961 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Towle #7,961, 4,156 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Towle is more common than 95.1% of them.

    Origin

    * As an English surname, from Middle English Tolle, a pet form of Anglo-Norman Torald, common name in Normandy from Old Norse Thóraldr, from Þórr (“Thor”) + vald (“rule, power”) (from Proto-Germanic *waldą). * The Middle English name was also Anglicized from Old Norse Tóli; see Tooley. Compare also Tolson. * Also as an English surname, variant of Towell.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,156 people named Towle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 74,289 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,164.

    #7,961
    rank among US surnames
    4,156
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.2%
    change since 2000 (was #7,378)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,955Beech4,16074,218
    #7,956Tarantino4,15874,253
    #7,958Nipper4,15774,271
    #7,961Coss4,15674,289
    #7,964Harbour4,15574,307

    Who is named Towle

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

    94% of people named Towle identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as two or more races and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Towle

    Towle has the Soundex code T400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T400.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Towle come from?
    * As an English surname, from Middle English Tolle, a pet form of Anglo-Norman Torald, common name in Normandy from Old Norse Thóraldr, from Þórr (“Thor”) + vald (“rule, power”) (from Proto-Germanic *waldą). * The Middle English name was also Anglicized from Old Norse Tóli; see Tooley. Compare…
    How common is the surname Towle?
    4,156 people in the United States had the surname Towle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,289 Americans. It ranked 7,961st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Towle?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Towle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Towle getting more or less common?
    Less common. 4,164 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,156 in 2010, down 0.2%.