Latour
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived near a tower, usually a defensive fortification or watchtower, from Old French tur, or a habitational name from various places called Latour or La Tour
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lətʰʊɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Latour is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- FRFrance
- CACanada
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
topographic name for someone who lived near a tower, usually a defensive fortification or watchtower, from Old French tur, or a habitational name from various places called Latour or La Tour. This is a French Canadian secondary surname, which has also been used independently since 1705.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Latour is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, a French surname, Latour, from Occitan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, de Latour ou La Tour; noms de plusieurs localités en France
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Antoine Georges François de Chabaud-Latourb. 1769FRFrench politician
- François de Chabaud-Latourb. 1804FRFrench general and politician (1804-1885)
- Antoine de Latourb. 1808FRFrench writer (1808-1881)
- Phyllis Latourb. 1921ZASpecial Operations Executive agent (1921–2023)
- Stanisław Latourb. 1927PLPolish architect
- Maria Latourb. 1943FRFrench actress
- Bruno Latourb. 1947FRFrench sociologist and philosopher (1947–2022)
- Hanspeter Latourb. 1947CHSwiss footballer and trainer
- Jason Latourb. 1977USAmerican comic book artist
- Pierre Latourb. 1993FRFrench road cyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.3K | #9,754 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.2K | #9,578 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.2K | #9,340 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 926 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 866 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 798 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 763 | #1,844 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 720 | #1,985 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 709 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 706 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 697 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 690 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Latour mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived near a tower, usually a defensive fortification or watchtower, from Old French tur, or a habitational name from various places called Latour or La Tour. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Latour?
- A machine transcription gives /lətʰʊɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Latour have the most bearers?
- Latour is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Latour”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.