To

At the 2020 census, 10,211 Americans bore the surname To — 3,416th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 29,300.

By the numbers

People: 10,211
Rank: 3,416th
How common: 1 in 29,300
Per 100,000: 3.4

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from yue, , etc.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname To described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 92.3%
White, not Hispanic 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino 2.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.05%

Notable people called To

Tô Lâm (born 1957)General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and leader of Vietnam since 2024
Johnnie To (born 1955)Hong Kong filmmaker
Kenneth To (1992–2019)Australian swimmer
Chapman To (born 1972)A well-known actor from Hong Kong who later moved to Taiwan and obtained Taiwanese citizenship.

People named To with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like To

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.