The surname Tye
A surname, carried by 3,746 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex T000
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,746 people named Tye in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 82,420 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,609.
#8,756
rank among US surnames
3,746
people in 2010
1.3
per 100,000 Americans
+3.8%
change since 2000 (was #8,410)
| Rank | Surname | People | 1 in |
|---|---|---|---|
| #8,747 | Stansberry | 3,750 | 82,332 |
| #8,749 | Boutin | 3,749 | 82,354 |
| #8,753 | Westerfield | 3,748 | 82,376 |
| #8,756 | Karcher | 3,746 | 82,420 |
| #8,758 | Avitia | 3,745 | 82,442 |
| #8,761 | Files | 3,744 | 82,464 |
| #8,763 | Henn | 3,743 | 82,486 |
Who is named Tye
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
72% of people named Tye identified as white (not Hispanic), 21% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 72%
- Black (not Hispanic) 21%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Tye has the Soundex code T000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T000.
Questions
- How common is the surname Tye?
- 3,746 people in the United States had the surname Tye in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,420 Americans. It ranked 8,756th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tye?
- In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Tye identified as white (not Hispanic), and 21% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Tye getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,609 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,746 in 2010, up 3.8%.