Explore the Family Name Tift

The meaning of Tift

English (Midlands): variant of Toft.

Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.

How common is the last name Tift in the United States?

According to data from the Decennial U.S. Census, the popularity of the surname "Tift" has experienced a slight decrease between 2000 and 2010. In 2000, Tift was ranked as the 27,721st most popular surname in the United States, but it dropped to the 28,587th spot in 2010, a drop of 3.12 percent. The count of individuals with this surname also increased marginally from 817 in 2000 to 834 in 2010, an increase of 2.08 percent. However, when considering the proportion per 100,000 people, the prevalence of the Tift surname decreased by 6.67 percent.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#27,721	#28,587	-3.12%
Count	817	834	2.08%
Proportion per 100k	0.3	0.28	-6.67%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Tift

Speaking of ethnic identity, based on data from the Decennial U.S. Census, there have been some shifts in the associated ethnicities with the Tift surname from 2000 to 2010. The percentage of Tifts identifying as Asian/Pacific Islander decreased significantly from 5.75 percent in 2000 to 2.64 percent in 2010, a dip of 54.09 percent. Those identifying as having two or more races were reported in 2000 but not in 2010. Meanwhile, those identifying as white saw a minor increase from 69.89 percent to 70.38 percent, while the proportion of Hispanic Tifts nearly doubled from 1.96 percent to 3.72 percent. The percentage of Black Tifts also rose slightly from 20.32 percent in 2000 to 21.22 percent in 2010. The American Indian and Alaskan Native category was reported in 2000 but had no data available for 2010.

	2000	2010	Change
White	69.89%	70.38%	0.7%
Black	20.32%	21.22%	4.43%
Hispanic	1.96%	3.72%	89.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander	5.75%	2.64%	-54.09%
Two or More Races	1.47%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0.61%	0%	0%