The surname Tellis
A surname, carried by 1,789 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex T420
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,789 people named Tellis in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 172,580 Americans. That is up 22% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,464.
#16,161
rank among US surnames
1,789
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+22.2%
change since 2000 (was #17,671)
Who is named Tellis
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
69% of people named Tellis identified as Black (not Hispanic), 23% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Black (not Hispanic) 69%
- White (not Hispanic) 23%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 3.0%
- Two or more races 1.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Tellis has the Soundex code T420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T420.
Questions
- How common is the surname Tellis?
- 1,789 people in the United States had the surname Tellis in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,580 Americans. It ranked 16,161st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tellis?
- In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Tellis identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 23% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Tellis getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,464 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,789 in 2010, up 22%.