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    The surname Tellier

    A surname, carried by 1,843 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex T460

    Tellier: #15,800 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Tellier #15,800, 1,843 people Tellier: #15,800 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Tellier #15,800, 1,843 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tellier is more common than 90.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,843 people named Tellier in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 167,523 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,642.

    #15,800
    rank among US surnames
    1,843
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +12.2%
    change since 2000 (was #16,184)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,792Waddy1,844167,433
    #15,800Harton1,843167,523
    #15,806Dufault1,842167,614

    Who is named Tellier

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

    95% of people named Tellier identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.5%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Tellier

    Tellier has the Soundex code T460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T460.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Tellier?
    1,843 people in the United States had the surname Tellier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 167,523 Americans. It ranked 15,800th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tellier?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Tellier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Tellier getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,642 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,843 in 2010, up 12%.