Towe
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Towe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Warwicks, Leics, and. see Tough .
- USUnited States1 in 116K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 136K
- CNChina≈1 in 66K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 261 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Warwicks, Leics, and. see Tough .
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nordic Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Towe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Towe | 2 |
| US United States | 2,877 | 1 in 116K | 2.9K | Towe | 261 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 136K | 266 | Towe | 84 |
| IT Italy | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Towe | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 585K | — | Towe | 12 |
| IE Ireland | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Towe | 9 |
| NO Norway | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 116K | 12 | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 126K | 35 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Towe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of þou (“thou”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In guw, your (second-person singular possessive adjective)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cel-pro, genitive singular of *tū: your sg, thy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-pro, lake, pond
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In klw, pity
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Harry Lancaster Toweb. 1898USAmerican politician (1898-1991)
- Peter Toweb. 1922CACanadian diplomat
- Kenneth M. Toweb. 1935USU.S. palaeontologist
- Monte Toweb. 1953USAmerican basketball player and coach
- Matt Toweb. 1988GBEnglish ice hockey forward
- Matthew Toweb. 1988GBice hockey player (1988-)
- Ross ToweGBstatistician
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #11,051 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,518 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,426 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 266 | #17,720 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Towe mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Warwicks, Leics, and. see Tough . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Towe?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Towe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Towe in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled towe.
- How common is the name Towe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,877 people named Towe in 2010, about 1 in 116 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Towe?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/toweThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Towe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.