The surname Tiwari
A surname, carried by 2,255 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex T600
Origin
Transliteration of Hindi तिवारी (tivārī), Nepali तिवारी (tiwārī).
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,255 people named Tiwari in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 136,916 Americans. That is up 151% since 2000, when the Census counted 899.
Who is named Tiwari
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Tiwari identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 4.3% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 88%
- White (not Hispanic) 4.3%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.8%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Variant spellings
- Tewari
Tiwari has the Soundex code T600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T600.
Questions
- Where does the surname Tiwari come from?
- Transliteration of Hindi तिवारी (tivārī), Nepali तिवारी (tiwārī).
- How common is the surname Tiwari?
- 2,255 people in the United States had the surname Tiwari in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 136,916 Americans. It ranked 13,480th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tiwari?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Tiwari identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 4.3% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Tiwari getting more or less common?
- More common. 899 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,255 in 2010, up 151%.
- What are other spellings of Tiwari?
- Tewari.