How common is the surname Tesfaye?

1,427 people in the United States had the surname Tesfaye in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 216,360 Americans. It ranked 19,075th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Tesfaye getting more or less common?

More common. 681 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,427 in 2010, up 110%.

Is Tesfaye also a first name?

Yes. Tesfaye is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.

The surname Tesfaye

An Amharic surname, carried by 1,427 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex T210

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tesfaye is more common than 88.2% of them.

Origin

Amharic origin

Borrowed from Amharic ተስፋዬ (täsfaye).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,427 people named Tesfaye in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 216,360 Americans. That is up 110% since 2000, when the Census counted 681.

#19,075

rank among US surnames

1,427

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+109.5%

change since 2000 (was #31,986)

Who is named Tesfaye

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

97% of people named Tesfaye identified as Black (not Hispanic), 1.3% as two or more races and 1.2% as white (not Hispanic).

Black (not Hispanic) 97%
Two or more races 1.3%
White (not Hispanic) 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Tesfai
Tesfay

Tesfaye has the Soundex code T210, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T210.

Questions

Where does the surname Tesfaye come from?: Borrowed from Amharic ተስፋዬ (täsfaye).
How common is the surname Tesfaye?: 1,427 people in the United States had the surname Tesfaye in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 216,360 Americans. It ranked 19,075th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Tesfaye?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Tesfaye identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as two or more races.
Is the surname Tesfaye getting more or less common?: More common. 681 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,427 in 2010, up 110%.
What are other spellings of Tesfaye?: Tesfai and Tesfay.
Is Tesfaye also a first name?: Yes. Tesfaye is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.