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Tou (surname)

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Tou
Language(s)Chinese, others
Other names
Variant form(s)

Tou is a surname in various cultures.

Origins

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Tou may be:

Statistics

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As of 2017, 2 people in Denmark and 48 people in Norway bore the surname Tou.[3][4]

The 2010 United States Census found 312 people with the surname Tou, making it the 63,873rd-most-common name in the country, up from 251 (72,237th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, slightly more than three-quarters of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and between 10% and 15% as White.[5]

People

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People with the surname Tou include:

  • Tou Samouth (ទូ សាមុត; c. 1915–1962), Cambodian communist politician
  • Holger Tou (1919–1947), Norwegian police official and collaborator with Nazi Germany
  • Tou Chung-hua (Chinese: 庹宗華; pinyin: Tuǒ Zōnghuá; born 1962), Taiwanese actor
  • Drissa Tou (born 1973), Burkinabe boxer

References

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  1. ^ Barber, Henry (1894). British family names; their origin and meaning, with lists of Scandinavian, Frisian, Anglo-Saxon and Norman names. London: E. Stock – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ Chao, Sheau-yueh J. (2000). Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames. Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 156. ISBN 9780806349466.
  3. ^ "Names". Statistics Norway. 24 January 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  4. ^ "How many Danes have the name ..." Statistics Denmark. 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  5. ^ "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.