Explore the Family Name Tiley

The meaning of Tiley

English (Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Wiltshire): variant of Tilley.

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

According to the Decennial U.S. Census data, the popularity of the surname Tiley has decreased over the last decade. In 2000, it was ranked the 47,838th most common surname in the United States, but by 2010 this ranking had dropped to 61,123, a decrease of approximately 27.77 percent. This drop is also reflected in the count of individuals with the Tiley surname, which declined from 416 in 2000 to 329 in 2010, showing a fall of around 20.91 percent. Consequently, the proportion of people with the Tiley surname per 100k residents also decreased by approximately 26.67 percent.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#47,838	#61,123	-27.77%
Count	416	329	-20.91%
Proportion per 100k	0.15	0.11	-26.67%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Tiley

In terms of ethnic identity, based on the Decennial U.S. Census data, the majority of people with the Tiley surname identify as White. In 2000, 95.43 percent identified as such, and although this percentage slightly reduced to 94.22 by 2010, it still represents a large majority. The data also shows a small percentage (2.16) identifying as having two or more races in 2000, but this data was suppressed for privacy reasons in 2010. There were no recorded instances of the Tiley surname among those identifying as Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic, or American Indian and Alaskan Native. Interestingly, in 2010, there was a small emergence (2.43 percent) of the Tiley surname within the Black ethnicity, where it hadn't been previously recorded in 2000.

	2000	2010	Change
White	95.43%	94.22%	-1.27%
Black	0%	2.43%	0%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
Two or More Races	2.16%	0%	0%
Hispanic	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0%	0%