# Till (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 4,299 |
| US rank (2010) | 7,721 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 71,818 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.1% (4,168 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, reduced from a pet form of Matilda. * As a north German surname, spelling variant of Thiel.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Till 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) | 91% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 3.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3% |
| Two or more races | 1.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Till in the United States.

## People named Till

- Lucas Till, American actor (born 1990)
- Emmett Till, African-American lynching victim (1941–1955)
- Mamie Till, African American schoolteacher

## Similar surnames

Tilley, Tull, Toll, Tall, Tell, Tilly, Thill, Twilley, Talley, Tello, Thiel, Tully.

## 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.