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    The surname Tarry

    A surname, carried by 1,053 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex T600

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tarry is more common than 85.2% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Terry.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,053 people named Tarry in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 293,206 Americans. That is up 22% since 2000, when the Census counted 867.

    #23,957
    rank among US surnames
    1,053
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +21.5%
    change since 2000 (was #26,469)

    Who is named Tarry

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

    67% of people named Tarry identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 67%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 25%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Tarry

    Tarry has the Soundex code T600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T600.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Tarry come from?
    Variant of Terry.
    How common is the surname Tarry?
    1,053 people in the United States had the surname Tarry in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 293,206 Americans. It ranked 23,957th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tarry?
    In the 2010 Census, 67% of people named Tarry identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Tarry getting more or less common?
    More common. 867 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,053 in 2010, up 22%.