as a Last Name
- 75,334
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Townsend
Meaning & Origins
English: topographic name for someone who lived at the extremity of a village, from Middle English toun ‘village’, ‘settlement’ + ende ‘end’.
| 430th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 75,334
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Townsend per capita
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