How common is the surname Tilden?

1,838 people in the United States had the surname Tilden in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 167,979 Americans. It ranked 15,833rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Tilden?

In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Tilden identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Who is the most famous person named Tilden?

Bill Tilden, American tennis player (1893–1953), followed by Samuel J. Tilden.

Where is the surname Tilden most common?

Wikidata records people named Tilden in the United States, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Austria.

Is the surname Tilden getting more or less common?

More common. 1,815 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,838 in 2010, up 1.3%.

The surname Tilden

A surname, carried by 1,838 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T435

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tilden is more common than 90.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,838 people named Tilden in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 167,979 Americans. That is up 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,815.

#15,833

rank among US surnames

1,838

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+1.3%

change since 2000 (was #14,943)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,824	Stannard	1,840	167,796
#15,827	Bohannan	1,839	167,888
#15,833	Bouffard	1,838	167,979

Who is named Tilden

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

89% of people named Tilden identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.6% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 89%
American Indian and Alaska Native 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Tildens

7 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Bill Tilden
American tennis player (1893–1953)
Samuel J. Tilden
American politician, Governor of New York from 1875 to 1876, and 1876 Democratic nominee f
William A. Tilden
British chemist (1842–1926)
Charles Lee Tilden Jr.
American rugby union player (1894-1968)
Douglas Tilden
American sculptor (1860–1935)
Jane Tilden
Austrian actress (1910–2002)
Josephine Tilden
American phycologist (1869-1957)

Notable Tildens come mostly from the United States (5), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1) and Austria (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Tilden

Tilton

Tilden has the Soundex code T435, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T435.

Questions

How common is the surname Tilden?: 1,838 people in the United States had the surname Tilden in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 167,979 Americans. It ranked 15,833rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Tilden?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Tilden identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Who is the most famous person named Tilden?: Bill Tilden, American tennis player (1893–1953), followed by Samuel J. Tilden.
Where is the surname Tilden most common?: Wikidata records people named Tilden in the United States, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Austria.
Is the surname Tilden getting more or less common?: More common. 1,815 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,838 in 2010, up 1.3%.