The surname Tee
A Chinese surname, carried by 1,557 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex T000
Origin
Chinese origin
From Hokkien 鄭／郑 (Tīⁿ). Doublet of Chung.
One of 193 Chinese surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,557 people named Tee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 198,295 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,381.
Who is named Tee
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
51% of people named Tee identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 30% as white (not Hispanic) and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 51%
- White (not Hispanic) 30%
- Black (not Hispanic) 11%
- Two or more races 2.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 2.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Tee has the Soundex code T000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T000.
Other Chinese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Tee come from?
- From Hokkien 鄭／郑 (Tīⁿ). Doublet of Chung.
- How common is the surname Tee?
- 1,557 people in the United States had the surname Tee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 198,295 Americans. It ranked 17,951st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tee?
- In the 2010 Census, 51% of people named Tee identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 30% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Tee getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,381 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,557 in 2010, up 13%.