Tow is a surname in various cultures.

Tow
Language(s)Chinese, English
Other names
Variant form(s)

Origins

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Tow may be:

Statistics

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According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, 78 people on the island of Great Britain and none on the island of Ireland bore the surname Tow in 2011. In 1881 there had been 148 people with the surname in Great Britain, primarily at Lincolnshire, West Riding of Yorkshire, and Leicestershire.[3]

The 2010 United States Census found 1,910 people with the surname Tow, making it the 15,355th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase in absolute numbers, but a decrease in relative frequency, from 1,893 (14,457th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, about four-fifths of the bearers of the surname identified as White, and between 10% and 15% as Asian.[5]

People

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People with the surname Tow include:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Louie, Emma Woo (1988). Chinese American Names: Tradition and Transition. McFarland. pp. 30, 181, 189. ISBN 9780786438778.
  2. ^ 罗健名 (2012). "新加坡华人姓氏平写法研究". In 罗福腾 (ed.). 《新加坡华语应用研究新进展》. Global Publishing. p. 242. ISBN 9789813205970.
  3. ^ a b Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. pp. 2703–2704. ISBN 9780192527479.
  4. ^ Hanks, Patrick, ed. (2003). A Dictionary of American Family Names. Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. p. 491. ISBN 0195081374.
  5. ^ "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.