The surname Tso
A Chinese surname, carried by 3,249 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex T200
Origin
Chinese origin
Borrowed from Mandarin 左 (Zuǒ).
One of 193 Chinese surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,249 people named Tso in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 95,028 Americans. That is up 8.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,001.
| Rank | Surname | People | 1 in |
|---|---|---|---|
| #9,927 | Wightman | 3,252 | 94,940 |
| #9,928 | Srivastava | 3,251 | 94,969 |
| #9,929 | Eiland | 3,250 | 94,999 |
| #9,931 | Tso | 3,249 | 95,028 |
Who is named Tso
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
53% of people named Tso identified as American Indian and Alaska Native, 40% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 3.2% as two or more races.
- American Indian and Alaska Native 53%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 40%
- Two or more races 3.2%
- White (not Hispanic) 2.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.1%
Compare: most common surnames among American Indian and Alaska Native people.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Tso has the Soundex code T200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T200.
Other Chinese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Tso come from?
- Borrowed from Mandarin 左 (Zuǒ).
- How common is the surname Tso?
- 3,249 people in the United States had the surname Tso in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 95,028 Americans. It ranked 9,931st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tso?
- In the 2010 Census, 53% of people named Tso identified as American Indian and Alaska Native, and 40% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- Is the surname Tso getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,001 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,249 in 2010, up 8.3%.