Tinsley

At the 2020 census, 14,443 Americans bore the surname Tinsley — 2,441st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 20,700.

By the numbers

People: 14,443
Rank: 2,441st
How common: 1 in 20,700
Per 100,000: 4.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the unattested Old English personal name *Tynni + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 60.6%
Black, not Hispanic 29.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Tinsley

Beatrice Tinsley (1941–1981)New Zealand astronomer
Michael Tinsley (born 1984)American hurdler
Jamaal Tinsley (born 1978)American basketball player
Marion Tinsley (1927–1995)American checkers player

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

Surnames like Tinsley

Also a first name

Tinsley has been given to 4,747 American babies as a first name since 1919, peaking in 2020. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.