How common is the surname Tingey?

1,164 people in the United States had the surname Tingey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 265,245 Americans. It ranked 22,183rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Tingey?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Tingey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Tingey getting more or less common?

More common. 1,060 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,164 in 2010, up 9.8%.

The surname Tingey

A surname, carried by 1,164 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tingey is more common than 86.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,164 people named Tingey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 265,245 Americans. That is up 9.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,060.

#22,183

rank among US surnames

1,164

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+9.8%

change since 2000 (was #22,637)

Who is named Tingey

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

97% of people named Tingey identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Two or more races 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Tingey

Tingey has the Soundex code T520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T520.

Questions

How common is the surname Tingey?: 1,164 people in the United States had the surname Tingey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 265,245 Americans. It ranked 22,183rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Tingey?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Tingey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Tingey getting more or less common?: More common. 1,060 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,164 in 2010, up 9.8%.