The Tour surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 127 people carried this name — #133,048 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 2,500,000 people counted. That is up 20% from 106 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 171 people named Tour.
29 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 26 départements, most often Corrèze.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
32 people named Tour is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Tour,
with a public archive behind them.
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James Tour 1959– · chemist -
Frances de la Tour 1944– · actor
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Tour.
- Touchard 203 · U.S. census
- Touche 106 · U.S. census
- Touchet 2,389 · U.S. census
- Toulon 156 · U.S. census
- Toulouse 514 · U.S. census
- Toupin 692 · U.S. census
- Tourdot 248 · U.S. census
- Toure 2,198 · U.S. census
- Tourigny 482 · U.S. census
- Tournay 158 · U.S. census
- Tournier 139 · U.S. census
- Tourville 1,565 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Tour is.
A volume says what happened to it.
Every page in the index is free and stays free. The Heritage Volume is the long form: the full paper trail, the arms, the crossing — bound, and yours.