Tooley

At the 2020 census, 4,165 Americans bore the surname Tooley — 7,666th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 71,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,165
Rank: 7,666th
How common: 1 in 71,800
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old Norse

Anglicized form of the Old Norse personal name Þórleifr, which is composed of the elements Þórr (“Thor”) and leifr (“inheritor”) (compare líf). It is a shortening of Sant Ole, meaning Saint Olaf.).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.8%
Black, not Hispanic 8.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Surnames like Tooley

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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.