The surname Twiss
An English surname, carried by 1,637 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex T200
Origin
English origin
Ultimately from Old English ġetwisa (“twin”).
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,637 people named Twiss in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 188,604 Americans. That is up 9.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,492.
Who is named Twiss
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
83% of people named Twiss identified as white (not Hispanic), 10% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 83%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 10%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.1%
- Two or more races 2.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Twiss has the Soundex code T200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T200.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Twiss come from?
- Ultimately from Old English ġetwisa (“twin”).
- How common is the surname Twiss?
- 1,637 people in the United States had the surname Twiss in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 188,604 Americans. It ranked 17,290th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Twiss?
- In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Twiss identified as white (not Hispanic), and 10% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
- Is the surname Twiss getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,492 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,637 in 2010, up 9.7%.