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The TOLMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,799 8051 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 1,190 4714 0.002 24
Change since 1880 +2609 -3337 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 88 15876 0.001 5
United Kingdom 322 12150 0.001 7
Top States for TOLMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 641 441 0.029 287
Idaho 390 406 0.030 301
California 352 8066 0.001 10
Oregon 250 1805 0.007 73
Maine 247 1085 0.019 194
Top States for TOLMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 390 406 0.030 301
Utah 641 441 0.029 287
Wyoming 102 539 0.021 207
Maine 247 1085 0.019 194
New Hampshire 96 2120 0.008 78

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called TOLMAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called TOLMAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called TOLMAN in Utah than any other state, but you are more likely to find a TOLMAN by picking someone at random in Idaho than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of TOLMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the TOLMAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the TOLMAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of TOLMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 67 1.76
Mixed Race 60 1.58
Asian/Pacific 34 0.89
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.5
Black/African American 15 0.39
White (Caucasian) 3,604 94.87

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the TOLMAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of TOLMAN in historical publications

A collector of toll. In Dutch, Taalman is an interpreter, from Taal, language, tongue. "Constantine Tolmaen," in Cornwall, is an ancient place of Druid worship. Tolmaen is usually applied to a stone that is perforated, from tol, a hole, and maen, a stone; twll mwn, Welsh, a mine, shaft, or pit.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


TOLMAN. TOLEMAX. The same as Toller.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to TOLMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as TOLMAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for TOLMAN

The following words are slight variants of TOLMAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.