How common is the surname Tuohy?

1,755 people in the United States had the surname Tuohy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 175,923 Americans. It ranked 16,395th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Tuohy?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Tuohy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Tuohy getting more or less common?

More common. 1,689 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,755 in 2010, up 3.9%.

The surname Tuohy

An Irish surname, carried by 1,755 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T000

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tuohy is more common than 89.9% of them.

Origin

Irish origin

Variant of Toohey.

One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,755 people named Tuohy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 175,923 Americans. That is up 3.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,689.

#16,395

rank among US surnames

1,755

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+3.9%

change since 2000 (was #15,825)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,390	Hoeppner	1,756	175,823
#16,395	Bebout	1,755	175,923

Who is named Tuohy

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

97% of people named Tuohy identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Tuohy

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

Other Irish surnames

All 880 Irish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Tuohy come from?: Variant of Toohey.
How common is the surname Tuohy?: 1,755 people in the United States had the surname Tuohy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 175,923 Americans. It ranked 16,395th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Tuohy?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Tuohy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Tuohy getting more or less common?: More common. 1,689 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,755 in 2010, up 3.9%.