The surname Twitty
A surname, carried by 2,947 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex T300
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,947 people named Twitty in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 104,766 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,667.
#10,809
rank among US surnames
2,947
people in 2010
1.0
per 100,000 Americans
+10.5%
change since 2000 (was #10,948)
Who is named Twitty
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
51% of people named Twitty identified as Black (not Hispanic), 43% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as two or more races.
- Black (not Hispanic) 51%
- White (not Hispanic) 43%
- Two or more races 2.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Twitty
Twitty 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 Twitty?
- 2,947 people in the United States had the surname Twitty in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 104,766 Americans. It ranked 10,809th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Twitty?
- In the 2010 Census, 51% of people named Twitty identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 43% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Twitty getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,667 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,947 in 2010, up 11%.