as a Last Name
- 7,254
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Towne
Meaning & Origins
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a village, as opposed to an outlying farm or hamlet, from Middle English toun (Old English tūn, which originally meant ‘fence’ and then ‘enclosure’, although the sense ‘settlement, village’ was already firmly established in the Old English period).
| 4,877th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 7,254
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Towne per capita
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