Toh is a surname in various cultures.
Origins Toh may be: A spelling of the Hokkien pronunciation () of the Chinese surname spelled in Mandarin Pinyin as Dù () A spelling of the Hokkien pronunciation () of the Chinese surname spelled in Mandarin Pinyin as Zhuó () An alternative spelling of the Korean surname spelled in the Revised Romanisation of Korean as Do ().
Statistics Toh was the 17th-most common surname among ethnic Chinese in Singapore as of 1997 (ranked by English spelling, rather than by Chinese characters). Roughly 25,300 people, or 1.0% of the Chinese Singaporean population at the time, bore the surname Toh.
The 2010 United States census found 445 people with the surname Toh, making it the 47,614th-most-common name in the country, up from 279 (66,274th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, slightly more than three-quarters of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian American, and between 10% and 15% as African American.
People People with the surname Toh include:
Chinese surname 卓 Toh Ah Boon (; 1860–1932), Singaporean landlord Toh Kian Chui (; 1927–2000), Singaporean construction industry businessman Patsy Toh (; born 1940), Chinese pianist based in the United Kingdom Toh Guo'An (; born 1982), Singaporean footballer Toh Hong Huat (; born 1974; disappeared in 1986), Singaporean student who went missing at age 12
Chinese surname 杜 Toh Chin Chye (; 1921–2012), Singaporean politician Toh Aik Choon (; 1927–1990), Singaporean shipbuilding industry businessman Sylvia Toh (; born 1946/1947), Singaporean newspaper columnist Toh Wei Soong (; born 1998), Singaporean swimmer Toh Ee Wei (; born 2000), Malaysian badminton player
Other or unknown People with another surname spelled Toh, or whose surnames as written in Chinese characters are not available: Somdej Toh (1788–1872), Thai Buddhist monk Boniface Hie Toh (born 1936), Ivorian boxer Kerstin Lindblad-Toh (born 1970), Swedish geneticist Terry Toh (born 1974), Singaporean chess master Toh Hsien Min (born 1975), Singaporean poet Peter Toh (born 1981), American musician Daryl Toh (born 1986), Malaysian comic book artist Joanna Toh (born 1996), Singaporean netball player Toh Kai Wei (born 1996), Singaporean netball player Nicholle Toh (born 2001), Singaporean swimmer Chai Keong Toh, Singaporean computer scientist Kim-Chuan Toh (), Singaporean mathematician
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