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    The surname Twine

    A surname, carried by 1,091 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex T500

    Twine: #23,333 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Twine #23,333, 1,091 people Twine: #23,333 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Twine #23,333, 1,091 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Twine is more common than 85.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,091 people named Twine in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 282,993 Americans. That is down 7.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,180.

    #23,333
    rank among US surnames
    1,091
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -7.5%
    change since 2000 (was #20,800)

    Who is named Twine

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

    65% of people named Twine identified as Black (not Hispanic), 30% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 65%
    • White (not Hispanic) 30%
    • Two or more races 3.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Twine

    Twine has the Soundex code T500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T500.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Twine?
    1,091 people in the United States had the surname Twine in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 282,993 Americans. It ranked 23,333rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Twine?
    In the 2010 Census, 65% of people named Twine identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 30% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Twine getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,180 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,091 in 2010, down 7.5%.