Towe is a given name and surname.

Given name

Towe is an uncommon Swedish feminine given name. From 2004 to 2020, between three and eleven newborn girls in Sweden were given the name Towe each year besides 2007, 2018, and 2019 when two or fewer newborn girls were given the name. People with this given name include: * Towe Jaarnek (born 1965), Swedish singer * Towe Lundman (born 1994), Swedish curler

Surname

As a surname, Towe is a variant of

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, which originated both as a nickname (from Middle English or , "steadfast") and separately as an

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of the

Scottish surname Scottish surnames are surnames currently found in Scotland, or surnames that have a historical connection with the country. History The earliest surnames found in Scotland occur during the reign of David I, King of Scots (1124–53). These were ...

Tulloch Tulloch may refer to: People with the surname *Alexander Bruce Tulloch (1838–1920), Major-general in the British Army, author *Bert Tulloch, English footballer *Bitsie Tulloch, American actress *Francis Tulloch (born 1940), Jamaican politician ...

. Other variants include Tow. According to statistics cited by

Patrick Hanks Patrick Hanks (born 24 March 1940) is an English lexicographer, corpus linguist, and onomastician. He has edited dictionaries of general language, as well as dictionaries of personal names. Background Hanks was educated at Ardingly College, ...

, 225 people on the island of Great Britain and 42 on the island of Ireland bore the surname Towe in 2011. In 1881 there were 90 people with the surname in Great Britain, primarily at Warwickshire,

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

, and Northumbria. In mid-19th-century Ireland the surname was found primarily at County Antrim. The

2010 United States Census The United States census of 2010 was the twenty-third United States national census. National Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2010. The census was taken via mail-in citizen self-reporting, with enumerators servin ...

found 2,877 people with the surname Towe, making it the 11,051th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase in absolute numbers, but a decrease in relative frequency, from 2,799 (10,518th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, slightly fewer than nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as White, and about 7% as Black. People with this surname include: *

Harry Lancaster Towe Harry Lancaster Towe (November 3, 1898 in Jersey City, New Jersey – February 4, 1991 in Tenafly, New Jersey) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 9th congressional district in the United States House of Re ...

(1898–1991), American Republican Party politician *

Peter Towe Peter Milburn Towe, (November 1, 1922 – January 29, 2015) was a Canadian diplomat and businessman. Born in London, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Western Ontario and a Master of Arts degr ...

(1922–2015), Canadian diplomat * Monte Towe (born 1953), American basketball coach *

Matt Towe Matt Towe (born 7 January 1988) is a former English professional ice hockey forward who last played for the Belfast Giants in the EIHL, having re-signed with the club for a second time on a short-term deal in September 2016. This was then exte ...

(born 1988), English ice hockey forward

References

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