Given name & surname · also French
Toure
Toure is a surname from French, ultimately from Soninke.
Original FrenchTouré
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Toure comes from French, and ultimately from Soninke.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1965. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Toure through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 420
- 420 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 438 as a first name in 2020; 3,495 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Toure’s family of names
In English usage, Toure as a surname was borrowed from the French form Touré. In Greek usage, Toure as a surname is a transliteration of Τουρέ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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