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    The surname Tress

    A German surname, carried by 591 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex T620

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tress is more common than 76.8% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Two main origins: * An English surname of unexplained origin. * A surname borrowed from German Tress.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 591 people named Tress in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 522,412 Americans. That is down 19% since 2000, when the Census counted 732.

    #37,646
    rank among US surnames
    591
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -19.3%
    change since 2000 (was #30,199)

    Who is named Tress

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

    89% of people named Tress identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; 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

    Surnames that sound like Tress

    Tress has the Soundex code T620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T620.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Tress come from?
    Two main origins: * An English surname of unexplained origin. * A surname borrowed from German Tress.
    How common is the surname Tress?
    591 people in the United States had the surname Tress in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 522,412 Americans. It ranked 37,646th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tress?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Tress identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Tress getting more or less common?
    Less common. 732 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 591 in 2010, down 19%.