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    The surname Trevithick

    A Cornish place surname, carried by 305 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex T613

    Trevithick: #65,066 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Trevithick #65,066, 305 people Trevithick: #65,066 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Trevithick #65,066, 305 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Trevithick is more common than 59.9% of them.

    Origin

    Cornish origin

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

    Trevithick 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 305 people named Trevithick in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 1,012,280 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 299.

    #65,066
    rank among US surnames
    305
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2%
    change since 2000 (was #62,577)

    Who is named Trevithick

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

    93% of people named Trevithick identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial 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 Trevithick

    Trevithick has the Soundex code T613, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T613.

    Other Cornish surnames

    All 18 Cornish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Trevithick come from?
    Habitational surname, from Cornish tre (“homestead”) + a mutated form of methek (“doctor, physician”).
    How common is the surname Trevithick?
    305 people in the United States had the surname Trevithick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 1,012,280 Americans. It ranked 65,066th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Trevithick?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Trevithick identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Trevithick?
    Trevithick is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Trevithick getting more or less common?
    More common. 299 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 305 in 2010, up 2.0%.