Toh is a surname in various cultures.
Origins
Toh may be:
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:
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- Toh Ah Boon (; 1860âÂÂ1932), Singaporean landlord
- Toh Kian Chui (; 1927âÂÂ2000), 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
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- Toh Chin Chye (; 1921âÂÂ2012), Singaporean politician
- Toh Aik Choon (; 1927âÂÂ1990), 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 (1788âÂÂ1872), 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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