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The TYSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 27,911 1152 0.01 104
United States (1880 census) 4,962 1243 0.01 99
Change since 1880 +22949 +91 0 +5
Other Countries
Australia 1,156 1424 0.007 71
United Kingdom 4,550 1373 0.01 99
Top States for TYSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,973 404 0.037 369
Florida 2,528 860 0.016 158
Pennsylvania 2,088 662 0.017 170
Georgia 2,045 561 0.025 250
Texas 1,792 1509 0.009 86
Top States for TYSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,973 404 0.037 369
Georgia 2,045 561 0.025 250
Washington DC 132 492 0.023 231
Alabama 929 890 0.021 209
Pennsylvania 2,088 662 0.017 170

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

Classification and Origin of TYSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the TYSON 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 TYSON 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 TYSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 505 1.81
White (Hispanic) 374 1.34
Native American/Alaskan 173 0.62
Asian/Pacific 103 0.37
White (Caucasian) 15,521 55.61
Black/African American 11,237 40.26

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

Meaning of TYSON in historical publications

The son of Tys, an abbreviation, among the Dutch, of Matthias.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


TYSON. Gilbert Tison, a Norman of distinction, was a tenant in chief at the making of Domesday.

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 TYSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as TYSON.

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 TYSON

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