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    The surname Tingle

    A surname, carried by 4,712 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex T524

    Tingle: #7,103 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Tingle #7,103, 4,712 people Tingle: #7,103 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Tingle #7,103, 4,712 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tingle is more common than 95.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,712 people named Tingle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 65,523 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,522.

    #7,103
    rank among US surnames
    4,712
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.2%
    change since 2000 (was #6,854)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,098Izzo4,71765,454
    #7,099Benn4,71665,468
    #7,102McAvoy4,71565,482
    #7,103Tingle4,71265,523
    #7,104Cataldo4,71165,537
    #7,106McCaslin4,70965,565

    Who is named Tingle

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

    82% of people named Tingle identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 82%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Tingles

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Scott D. Tingle
      American astronaut, born 1965

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Tingle

    Tingle has the Soundex code T524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T524.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Tingle?
    4,712 people in the United States had the surname Tingle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,523 Americans. It ranked 7,103rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tingle?
    In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Tingle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Tingle?
    Scott D. Tingle, American astronaut.
    Where is the surname Tingle most common?
    Wikidata records people named Tingle in the United States.
    Is the surname Tingle getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,522 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,712 in 2010, up 4.2%.