How common is the surname Terrill?

5,641 people in the United States had the surname Terrill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 54,732 Americans. It ranked 6,075th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Terrill?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Terrill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Terrill getting more or less common?

More common. 5,549 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,641 in 2010, up 1.7%.

The surname Terrill

A surname, carried by 5,641 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T640

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Terrill is more common than 96.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,641 people named Terrill in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 54,732 Americans. That is up 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,549.

#6,075

rank among US surnames

5,641

people in 2010

1.9

per 100,000 Americans

+1.7%

change since 2000 (was #5,727)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,066	Fite	5,656	54,587
#6,067	Heintz	5,655	54,597
#6,068	Kirksey	5,654	54,607
#6,070	Pierre-Louis	5,653	54,616
#6,071	Savoie	5,652	54,626
#6,072	Suter	5,648	54,665
#6,074	Dreher	5,644	54,703

Who is named Terrill

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

92% of people named Terrill identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
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 Terrill

Terrill has the Soundex code T640, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T640.

Questions

How common is the surname Terrill?: 5,641 people in the United States had the surname Terrill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 54,732 Americans. It ranked 6,075th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Terrill?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Terrill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Terrill getting more or less common?: More common. 5,549 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,641 in 2010, up 1.7%.