Last Name TONGUE

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Meaning Local: Of Tonge or Tong, parishes in counties Salop, Kent, Lancaster, and West. Riding York. Probably all those places are so termed from the shape of the land (like a tongue). Of Tong in county Salop it is said, 'The river Werf commences from the union of two brooks at the western extremity of the parish.' The tongue of land in this case might lie between the two streams.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 36,917 (2000 US census) 24,145 (1990 US census)
Count 570 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 70.35%, or 401 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 28.25%, or 161 total occurrences, as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.23%, or 7 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • undisclosed % as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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