Last Name TOWER

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Meaning	Local: Of the tower. Also the tower, i.e. tawyer, a dresser of skins. To tew, to taw, and to taw all seem to be forms of one verb, and to signify the same thing, 'viz' to work or operate upon an article.

Origin	English, Irish, Hungarian

Rank	7,034 (2000 US census)	5,077 (1990 US census)

Count	4,392 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

93.35%, or 4100 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
3.05%, or 134 total occurrences, as black,
0.57%, or 25 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.39%, or 17 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.07%, or 47 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.57%, or 69 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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Shortest last names

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Ukrainian middle names

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