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O'toole Name Meaning

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tuathail ‘descendant of Tuathal’, an old Celtic personal name composed of the elements tuath ‘people’ + gal ‘mighty’. This is the name of distinct families in Leinster and Ulster.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press


Similar surnames: O'boyle, Toole, Thole, Tooley, Thode, O'tool, Ortloff, Toye, Petzold

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You can see how O'toole families moved over time by selecting different census years. The O'toole family name was found in the USA, and Scotland between 1861 and 1920. The most O'toole families were found in USA in 1880. In 1880 there were 325 O'toole families living in Massachusetts. This was about 24% of all the recorded O'toole's in USA. Massachusetts had the highest population of O'toole families in 1880.
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Between 1981 and 2004, in the United States, O'toole life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1992, and highest in 2003. The average life expectancy for O'toole in 1981 was 54, and 74 in 2004.

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