Till

Till is the 8,220th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,858 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 77,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,858
Rank: 8,220th
How common: 1 in 77,500
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, reduced from a pet form of Matilda.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Till described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Till

Lucas Till (born 1990)American actor
Emmett Till (1941–1955)African-American lynching victim
Mamie Till (1921–2003)African American schoolteacher
Darren Till (born 1992)British mixed martial artist
Eric Till (born 1929)English film director

People named Till with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Till

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.