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:
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Towe Jaarnek
Towe Jaarnek (born 13 June 1965) is a Swedish singer. At the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1991, she performed the song '' Ett liv med dej'', which finished 2nd.Towe Lundman (born 1994), Swedish curler
Surname
As a surname, Towe is a variant of Tough, which originated both as a nickname (from
Middle English
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or , "steadfast") and separately as an
Anglicisation
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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 of Scotland, David I, King of Scots (11 ...
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 politici ...
. Other variants include Tow.
According to statistics cited by
Patrick Hanks
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Background
Hanks was educated a ...
, 225 people on the island of
Great Britain
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and 42 on the island of
Ireland
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bore the surname Towe in 2011. In 1881 there were 90 people with the surname in Great Britain, primarily at
Warwickshire
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,
Leicestershire
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,
Staffordshire
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, and
Northumbria
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The name derives from the Old English meaning "the people or province north of the Humber", as opposed to the Sout ...
. In mid-19th-century Ireland the surname was found primarily at
County Antrim
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. The 2010 United States Census 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
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, and about 7% as
Black
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.
People with this surname include:
* Harry Lancaster Towe (1898–1991), American Republican Party politician
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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 deg ...
(1922–2015), Canadian diplomat
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Monte Towe
Monte Corwin Towe (born September 27, 1953) is an American basketball coach and retired basketball player. He was a starting point guard on the 1973-74 North Carolina State Wolfpack men's basketball team, 1973–74 North Carolina State Wolfpack ...
(born 1953), American basketball coach
*Matt Towe (born 1988), English ice hockey forward