The surname Tatem
A surname, carried by 1,035 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex T350
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,035 people named Tatem in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 298,305 Americans. That is down 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,059.
#24,237
rank among US surnames
1,035
people in 2010
0.3
per 100,000 Americans
-2.3%
change since 2000 (was #22,654)
Who is named Tatem
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
62% of people named Tatem identified as white (not Hispanic), 31% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 62%
- Black (not Hispanic) 31%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
- Two or more races 3.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Tatem has the Soundex code T350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T350.
Questions
- How common is the surname Tatem?
- 1,035 people in the United States had the surname Tatem in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 298,305 Americans. It ranked 24,237th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tatem?
- In the 2010 Census, 62% of people named Tatem identified as white (not Hispanic), and 31% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Tatem getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,059 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,035 in 2010, down 2.3%.