Toure

3,495 people in the United States were counted with the surname Toure in the 2020 census, making it the 8,984th most common in the country. That is about one person in 85,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,495
Rank: 8,984th
How common: 1 in 85,500
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin French

ultimately from snk.

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 91.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
White, not Hispanic 2.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Toure

Yaya Touré (born 1983)Ivorian association football player
Ahmed Sékou Touré (1922–1984)President of Guinea
Amadou Toumani Touré (1948–2020)Malian soldier and politician
Kolo Touré (born 1981)Ivorian association football manager
Ali Farka Touré (1939–2006)Malian musician
Aminata Touré (born 1962)Senegalese prime minister
Fodé Ballo-Touré (born 1997)Senegalese, Malian and French association football player
Ibrahim Touré (1985–2014)Ivorian footballer

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

Surnames like Toure

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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.