# Tattersall (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/tattersall/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 630 |
| US rank (2010) | 35,671 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 490,072 people |
| Change since 2000 | +8.6% (580 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from Tattershall, in Lincolnshire, named from the Old English personal name Tathere + healh (“corner, nook”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Tattersall in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 97% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |
| Two or more races | 0.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Tattersall in the United States.

## People named Tattersall

- Ian Tattersall, American paleoanthropologist

## Similar surnames

Teeters, Tadros, Tedrick.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.