Titus

At the 2020 census, 15,137 Americans bore the surname Titus — 2,348th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 19,700.

By the numbers

People: 15,137
Rank: 2,348th
How common: 1 in 19,700
Per 100,000: 5.1

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Latin Titus, a Roman and Sabine praenomen meaning either "honorable" or "strong; of the giants".

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.9%
Black, not Hispanic 12.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%

Notable people called Titus

Constance Titus (1873–1967)American rower
Dina Titus (born 1950)U.S. Representative from Nevada

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

Surnames like Titus

Tittle

Also a first name

Titus has been given to 26,823 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2015. 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.