Last Name TOW

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Meaning	Prayers. Big waves. Also ceramics, pottery.

Origin	Chinese

Rank	14,457 (2000 US census)	16,310 (1990 US census)

Count	1,893 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

80.35%, or 1521 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.9%, or 17 total occurrences, as black,
13.21%, or 250 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.37%, or 26 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.8%, or 34 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
2.38%, or 45 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Surnames that make great first names

We do not really know what surnames will make great first name. It is just highly subjective. What we can tell you is what last names historically been used as first name. We do not know if they will be great. We just know they have been at some time...