# Tickner (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/tickner/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 646 |
| US rank (2010) | 34,916 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 477,934 people |
| Change since 2000 | -4.0% (673 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Topographic surname for someone who lived at a crossroads or a fork in the road, from Old English twiċen (“fork in the road”). Compare twitchel.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Tickner in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 93% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.8% |
| Two or more races | 2.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Tickner in the United States.

## People named Tickner

- Charles Frederick Tickner, American figure skater
- J. Ann Tickner, American international relations scholar

## Similar surnames

Tigner, Tichenor, Tignor, Tessmer.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.