The surname Tilson
A surname, carried by 3,186 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex T425
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,186 people named Tilson in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,907 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,048.
#10,114
rank among US surnames
3,186
people in 2010
1.1
per 100,000 Americans
+4.5%
change since 2000 (was #9,795)
Who is named Tilson
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
86% of people named Tilson identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 86%
- Black (not Hispanic) 8.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Tilson has the Soundex code T425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T425.
Questions
- How common is the surname Tilson?
- 3,186 people in the United States had the surname Tilson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,907 Americans. It ranked 10,114th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tilson?
- In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Tilson identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Tilson getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,048 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,186 in 2010, up 4.5%.