How common is the surname Tawney?

1,649 people in the United States had the surname Tawney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 187,232 Americans. It ranked 17,176th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Tawney?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Tawney identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

How do you pronounce Tawney?

Tawney is /ˈtɔː.ni/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Tawney getting more or less common?

More common. 1,634 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,649 in 2010, up 0.9%.

The surname Tawney

A Norman place surname, carried by 1,649 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈtɔː.ni/ 2 syllables Soundex T500

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tawney is more common than 89.4% of them.

Origin

Norman origin

Habitational surname of Norman origin, from the villages of Saint-Aubin-du-Thenney and Saint-Jean-du-Thenney, both in Normandy.

Tawney is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 128 Norman surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,649 people named Tawney in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 187,232 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,634.

#17,176

rank among US surnames

1,649

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+0.9%

change since 2000 (was #16,249)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,169	Din	1,650	187,119
#17,176	Haslett	1,649	187,232
#17,182	Dauzat	1,648	187,346

Who is named Tawney

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

93% of people named Tawney identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Taney

Surnames that sound like Tawney

Tawney has the Soundex code T500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T500.

Other Norman surnames

All 128 Norman surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Tawney come from?: Habitational surname of Norman origin, from the villages of Saint-Aubin-du-Thenney and Saint-Jean-du-Thenney, both in Normandy.
How common is the surname Tawney?: 1,649 people in the United States had the surname Tawney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 187,232 Americans. It ranked 17,176th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Tawney?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Tawney identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
How do you pronounce Tawney?: Tawney is /ˈtɔː.ni/, 2 syllables.
What type of surname is Tawney?: Tawney is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Tawney getting more or less common?: More common. 1,634 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,649 in 2010, up 0.9%.
What are other spellings of Tawney?: Taney.