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    The surname Tryon

    A surname, carried by 4,638 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex T650

    Tryon: #7,201 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Tryon #7,201, 4,638 people Tryon: #7,201 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Tryon #7,201, 4,638 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tryon is more common than 95.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,638 people named Tryon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 66,569 Americans. That is up 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,427.

    #7,201
    rank among US surnames
    4,638
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.8%
    change since 2000 (was #6,982)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,198Middlebrooks4,64366,497
    #7,199Tristan4,64266,511
    #7,200Serafin4,64166,526
    #7,201Tryon4,63866,569
    #7,203Rigney4,63766,583

    Who is named Tryon

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

    86% of people named Tryon identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Tryons

    3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Tom Tryon
      American actor and novelist (1926–1991)
    • Dwight William Tryon
      American artist (1849–1925)
    • Alice Faber Tryon
      American botanist (1920-2009)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Tryon

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

    Questions

    How common is the surname Tryon?
    4,638 people in the United States had the surname Tryon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 66,569 Americans. It ranked 7,201st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tryon?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Tryon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Tryon?
    Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (1926–1991), followed by Dwight William Tryon.
    Where is the surname Tryon most common?
    Wikidata records people named Tryon in the United States.
    Is the surname Tryon getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,427 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,638 in 2010, up 4.8%.