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    The surname Tetro

    An Italian nickname surname, carried by 538 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex T360

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tetro is more common than 75% of them.

    Origin

    Italian origin

    Two possible origins: * A respelling of French Tétreau. * Borrowed from Italian Tetro, a nickname from tetro (“gloomy, sullen, dark”).

    Tetro is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 538 people named Tetro in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 573,876 Americans. That is down 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 545.

    #40,610
    rank among US surnames
    538
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.3%
    change since 2000 (was #38,198)

    Who is named Tetro

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

    95% of people named Tetro identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Tetro

    Tetro has the Soundex code T360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T360.

    Other Italian surnames

    All 798 Italian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Tetro come from?
    Two possible origins: * A respelling of French Tétreau. * Borrowed from Italian Tetro, a nickname from tetro (“gloomy, sullen, dark”).
    How common is the surname Tetro?
    538 people in the United States had the surname Tetro in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 573,876 Americans. It ranked 40,610th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tetro?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Tetro identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Tetro?
    Tetro is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Tetro getting more or less common?
    Less common. 545 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 538 in 2010, down 1.3%.