The surname Tessier
A French surname, carried by 4,394 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex T260
Origin
French origin
A surname from French.
One of 791 French surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,394 people named Tessier in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 70,265 Americans. That is up 7.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,107.
Who is named Tessier
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Tessier identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- Two or more races 1.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Teissier
Surnames that sound like Tessier
Tessier has the Soundex code T260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T260.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Tessier come from?
- Tessier is French in origin.
- How common is the surname Tessier?
- 4,394 people in the United States had the surname Tessier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,265 Americans. It ranked 7,563rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tessier?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Tessier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Tessier getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,107 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,394 in 2010, up 7.0%.
- What are other spellings of Tessier?
- Teissier.