Tiller

Tiller is the 4,693rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,330 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 40,800.

By the numbers

People: 7,330
Rank: 4,693rd
How common: 1 in 40,800
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Capitalization of tiller.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.2%
Black, not Hispanic 19.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Tiller

Nadja Tiller (1929–2023)Austrian actress
Rasmus Tiller (born 1996)Norwegian cyclist
Carl Frode Tiller (born 1970)Norwegian writer
George Tiller (1941–2009)American physician from Wichita, Kansas murdered by anti-abortion extremist
Henry Tiller (1914–1999)boxer

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

Surnames like Tiller

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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.