Tye

At the 2020 census, 3,647 Americans bore the surname Tye — 8,636th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 82,000.

By the numbers

People: 3,647
Rank: 8,636th
How common: 1 in 82,000
Per 100,000: 1.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 69.5%
Black, not Hispanic 20.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Tye

Christopher Tye (1505–1573)British organist and composer

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

Also a first name

Tye has been given to 5,580 American babies as a first name since 1930, peaking in 2006. 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.