Tyler
62,380 people in the United States were counted with the surname Tyler in the 2020 census, making it the 528th most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,792.
By the numbers
- People
- 62,380
- Rank
- 528th
- How common
- 1 in 4,792
- Per 100,000
- 20.9
Where the name comes from
Origin an occupational name
From Middle English Tyler, Tylere, Tygler, Tygheler, Tyghelere, Tyghelare, Tygelere, from Middle English tiler, tylere, tylare, tylier (“tiler”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Tyler described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Tyler
- John Tyler (1790–1862)president of the United States from 1841 to 1845
- Liv Tyler (born 1977)American actress
- Steven Tyler (born 1948)American singer
- Anne Tyler (born 1941)American novelist
- Letitia Christian Tyler (1790–1842)First Lady of the United States
- Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820–1889)First Lady of the United States
- Wat Tyler (died 1381)14th-century English rebel
- Aisha Tyler (born 1970)American actress, comedian, director, and talk show host
People named Tyler with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Also a first name
Tyler has been given to 621,493 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1994. 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.