How common is the surname Till?

4,299 people in the United States had the surname Till in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,818 Americans. It ranked 7,721st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Till?

Lucas Till, American actor (born 1990), followed by Emmett Till.

Where is the surname Till most common?

Wikidata records people named Till in the United States.

Is the surname Till getting more or less common?

More common. 4,168 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,299 in 2010, up 3.1%.

The surname Till

A surname, carried by 4,299 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex T400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Till is more common than 95.2% of them.

Origin

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

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,299 people named Till in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 71,818 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,168.

#7,721

rank among US surnames

4,299

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

+3.1%

change since 2000 (was #7,368)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,714	Lail	4,304	71,735
#7,717	Stockdale	4,301	71,785
#7,720	Theobald	4,300	71,801
#7,721	Till	4,299	71,818
#7,723	Higley	4,298	71,835
#7,724	Esser	4,297	71,851

Who is named Till

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

91% of people named Till identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.7%
Two or more races 1.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Tills

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Lucas Till
American actor (born 1990)
Emmett Till
African-American lynching victim (1941–1955)
Mamie Till
African American schoolteacher, 1921–2003

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Till

Till has the Soundex code T400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T400.

Questions

Where does the surname Till come from?: * As an English surname, reduced from a pet form of Matilda. * As a north German surname, spelling variant of Thiel.
How common is the surname Till?: 4,299 people in the United States had the surname Till in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,818 Americans. It ranked 7,721st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Till?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Till identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Till?: Lucas Till, American actor (born 1990), followed by Emmett Till.
Where is the surname Till most common?: Wikidata records people named Till in the United States.
Is the surname Till getting more or less common?: More common. 4,168 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,299 in 2010, up 3.1%.