Tomlin

At the 2020 census, 11,372 Americans bore the surname Tomlin — 3,082nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 26,300.

By the numbers

People: 11,372
Rank: 3,082nd
How common: 1 in 26,300
Per 100,000: 3.8

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Thomas.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.5%
Black, not Hispanic 19.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Tomlin

Lily Tomlin (born 1939)American actress
Chris Tomlin (born 1972)American Christian musician
Lee Tomlin (born 1989)English association football player
Mike Tomlin (born 1972)American football coach

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

Surnames like Tomlin

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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.