Toh (surname)
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. 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 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, Singaporean landlord
- Toh Kian Chui, Singaporean construction industry businessman
- Patsy Toh, Chinese pianist based in the United Kingdom
- Toh Guo'An, Singaporean footballer
- Toh Hong Huat, Singaporean student who went missing at age 12
Chinese surname 杜
- Toh Chin Chye, Singaporean politician
- Toh Aik Choon, Singaporean shipbuilding industry businessman
- Sylvia Toh, Singaporean newspaper columnist
- Toh Wei Soong, Singaporean swimmer
- Toh Ee Wei, 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, Thai Buddhist monk
- Boniface Hie Toh, Ivorian boxer
- Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Swedish geneticist
- Terry Toh, Singaporean chess master
- Toh Hsien Min, Singaporean poet
- Peter Toh, American musician
- Daryl Toh, Malaysian comic book artist
- Joanna Toh, Singaporean netball player
- Toh Kai Wei, Singaporean netball player
- Nicholle Toh, Singaporean swimmer
- Chai Keong Toh, Singaporean computer scientist
- Kim-Chuan Toh, Singaporean mathematician