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The TILL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,168 7368 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 771 6777 0.002 15
Change since 1880 +3397 -591 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 453 3522 0.003 28
United Kingdom 2,606 2370 0.006 57
Top States for TILL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 465 1595 0.010 105
Texas 352 5873 0.002 17
Florida 326 6285 0.002 20
California 227 11649 0.001 7
Indiana 190 4241 0.003 31
Top States for TILL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 465 1595 0.010 105
Iowa 176 2302 0.006 60
South Carolina 173 3292 0.004 43
Mississippi 90 3601 0.003 32
Indiana 190 4241 0.003 31

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called TILL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called TILL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called TILL in Alabama than any other state, but you are more likely to find a TILL by picking someone at random in Alabama than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of TILL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the TILL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the TILL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of TILL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 162 3.89
White (Hispanic) 58 1.39
Mixed Race 51 1.22
Asian/Pacific 29 0.7
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.46
White (Caucasian) 3,849 92.35

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the TILL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of TILL in historical publications

TILL. See AVilliam. Sometimes perhaps a contraction of At-Hill.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to TILL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as TILL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for TILL

The following words are slight variants of TILL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.