Tilton

At the 2020 census, 7,677 Americans bore the surname Tilton — 4,484th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 38,900.

By the numbers

People: 7,677
Rank: 4,484th
How common: 1 in 38,900
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Habitational surname from the village of Tilton on the Hill, in Leicestershire, from the Old English personal name Tila + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Tilton

Charlene Tilton (born 1958)American actress
Martha Tilton (1915–2006)American singer

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

Surnames like Tilton

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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.