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    The surname Treen

    A Cornish place surname, carried by 586 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex T650

    Treen: #37,899 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Treen #37,899, 586 people Treen: #37,899 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Treen #37,899, 586 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Treen is more common than 76.6% of them.

    Origin

    Cornish origin

    Anglicized form of Cornish Tredhin, a placename composed of the elements tre (“farmstead”) and din (“fort”).

    Treen is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 18 Cornish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 586 people named Treen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 526,870 Americans. That is down 3.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 610.

    #37,899
    rank among US surnames
    586
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.9%
    change since 2000 (was #35,003)

    Who is named Treen

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

    95% of people named Treen identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Treon

    Surnames that sound like Treen

    Treen has the Soundex code T650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T650.

    Other Cornish surnames

    All 18 Cornish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Treen come from?
    Anglicized form of Cornish Tredhin, a placename composed of the elements tre (“farmstead”) and din (“fort”).
    How common is the surname Treen?
    586 people in the United States had the surname Treen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 526,870 Americans. It ranked 37,899th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Treen?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Treen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Treen?
    Treen is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Treen getting more or less common?
    Less common. 610 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 586 in 2010, down 3.9%.
    What are other spellings of Treen?
    Treon.