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    The surname Tweed

    A surname, carried by 2,750 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex T300

    Tweed: #11,456 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Tweed #11,456, 2,750 people Tweed: #11,456 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Tweed #11,456, 2,750 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tweed is more common than 92.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,750 people named Tweed in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 112,271 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,707.

    #11,456
    rank among US surnames
    2,750
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.6%
    change since 2000 (was #10,809)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,448Mancillas2,751112,230
    #11,456Greenbaum2,750112,271
    #11,462Eudy2,749112,312
    #11,463Coogan2,748112,353

    Who is named Tweed

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

    92% of people named Tweed identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Tweeds

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • William Magear Tweed
      American politician (1823-1878)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Tweed

    Tweed has the Soundex code T300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T300.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Tweed?
    2,750 people in the United States had the surname Tweed in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 112,271 Americans. It ranked 11,456th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tweed?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Tweed identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Tweed?
    William Magear Tweed, American politician (1823-1878).
    Where is the surname Tweed most common?
    Wikidata records people named Tweed in the United States.
    Is the surname Tweed getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,707 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,750 in 2010, up 1.6%.