The surname Tilbury
An English place surname, carried by 704 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex T416
Origin
English origin
From the Old English personal name Tila + byriġ, the dative case of burg (“fortified place”).
Tilbury is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 704 people named Tilbury in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 438,559 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 697.
Who is named Tilbury
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Tilbury identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.7% as two or more races and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Two or more races 3.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Tilby
Tilbury has the Soundex code T416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T416.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Tilbury come from?
- From the Old English personal name Tila + byriġ, the dative case of burg (“fortified place”).
- How common is the surname Tilbury?
- 704 people in the United States had the surname Tilbury in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 438,559 Americans. It ranked 32,632nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tilbury?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Tilbury identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.7% as two or more races.
- What type of surname is Tilbury?
- Tilbury is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Tilbury getting more or less common?
- More common. 697 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 704 in 2010, up 1.0%.
- What are other spellings of Tilbury?
- Tilby.