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    The surname Terwilliger

    A surname, carried by 4,153 people in the United States.

    4 syllables Soundex T642

    Terwilliger: #7,966 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Terwilliger #7,966, 4,153 people Terwilliger: #7,966 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Terwilliger #7,966, 4,153 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Terwilliger is more common than 95.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,153 people named Terwilliger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 74,343 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,064.

    #7,966
    rank among US surnames
    4,153
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.2%
    change since 2000 (was #7,546)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,958Nipper4,15774,271
    #7,961Coss4,15674,289
    #7,964Harbour4,15574,307
    #7,966Terwilliger4,15374,343
    #7,968Bednar4,15174,379
    #7,971Colella4,15074,397
    #7,972Lechner4,14974,414

    Who is named Terwilliger

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

    96% of people named Terwilliger identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Terwilliger?
    4,153 people in the United States had the surname Terwilliger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,343 Americans. It ranked 7,966th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Terwilliger?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Terwilliger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Terwilliger getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,064 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,153 in 2010, up 2.2%.