# Trevithick (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/trevithick/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Cornish.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Cornish |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 305 |
| US rank (2010) | 65,066 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 1,012,280 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.0% (299 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname, from Cornish tre (“homestead”) + a mutated form of methek (“doctor, physician”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Trevithick in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 93% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 5.3% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |

## Similar surnames

Tripathi, Trevathan, Trivedi, Thrift, Trivette, Trivett, Trovato, Trafton, Tripodi, Torbett.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.