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 (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 (卓亞文; 1860–1932), Singaporean landlord
 * Toh Kian Chui (卓键水; 1927–2000), Singaporean construction industry businessman
 * Patsy Toh (卓一龍; born 1940), Chinese pianist based in the United Kingdom
 * Toh Guo'An (卓国安; born 1982), Singaporean footballer
 * Toh Hong Huat (卓鸿发; born 1974; disappeared in 1986), Singaporean student who went missing at age 12

Chinese surname 杜

 * Toh Chin Chye (杜进才; 1921–2012), Singaporean politician
 * Toh Aik Choon (杜亿春; 1927–1990), Singaporean shipbuilding industry businessman
 * Sylvia Toh (杜白秋; born 1946/1947), Singaporean newspaper columnist
 * Toh Wei Soong (杜维崧; born 1998), Singaporean swimmer
 * Toh Ee Wei (杜依蔚; 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 (fl. 1990–present), Singaporean mathematician