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The surname Tickle

A place surname, carried by 1,919 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T240

Tickle: #15,296 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Tickle #15,296, 1,919 people Tickle: #15,296 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Tickle #15,296, 1,919 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tickle is more common than 90.6% of them.

Origin

From Tickhill in England.

Tickle is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,919 people named Tickle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 160,889 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,659.

#15,296
rank among US surnames
1,919
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+15.7%
change since 2000 (was #16,053)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#15,289Jenkinson1,920160,805
#15,296Brasfield1,919160,889
#15,303Canto1,918160,973

Who is named Tickle

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

96% of people named Tickle identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
  • Two or more races 0.7%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Tickle

Tickle has the Soundex code T240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T240.

Questions

Where does the surname Tickle come from?
From Tickhill in England.
How common is the surname Tickle?
1,919 people in the United States had the surname Tickle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 160,889 Americans. It ranked 15,296th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Tickle?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Tickle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Tickle?
Tickle is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Tickle getting more or less common?
More common. 1,659 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,919 in 2010, up 16%.