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    The surname Tall

    A surname, carried by 1,920 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex T400

    Tall: #15,289 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Tall #15,289, 1,920 people Tall: #15,289 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Tall #15,289, 1,920 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tall is more common than 90.6% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,920 people named Tall in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 160,805 Americans. That is up 25% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,542.

    #15,289
    rank among US surnames
    1,920
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +24.5%
    change since 2000 (was #16,988)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,284Fallis1,921160,721
    #15,289Jenkinson1,920160,805
    #15,296Brasfield1,919160,889

    Who is named Tall

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    47% of people named Tall identified as white (not Hispanic), 37% as Black (not Hispanic) and 7.1% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 47%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 37%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 7.1%
    • Two or more races 3.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Tall

    Tall has the Soundex code T400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Tall?
    1,920 people in the United States had the surname Tall in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 160,805 Americans. It ranked 15,289th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tall?
    In the 2010 Census, 47% of people named Tall identified as white (not Hispanic), and 37% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Tall getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,542 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,920 in 2010, up 25%.