Explore the Family Name Treis

The meaning of Treis

German: 1. topographic name for someone who lived by or owned an uncultivated piece of land used as pasture, from Middle Low German drīsch ‘fallow land’, or a habitational name from a place called with this word (in Hessian dialect treis), in Hesse or on the Mosel river. 2. from a vernacular short form of the personal name Andreas ‘Andrew’.

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

Based on the Decennial U.S. Census, the surname Treis has seen a slight decline in popularity between 2000 and 2010. Specifically, its rank among all surnames dropped by about 4 percent from position 109,328 to 113,791 over the decade. However, the number of individuals with the Treis surname slightly increased in the same period, growing by 2.67 percent from 150 to 154. Despite this growth, the proportion of people named Treis per 100,000 population decreased by approximately 17 percent.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#109,328	#113,791	-4.08%
Count	150	154	2.67%
Proportion per 100k	0.06	0.05	-16.67%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Treis

In terms of ethnicity, the data from the Decennial U.S. Census shows that the vast majority of individuals with the surname Treis identified as white in both 2000 and 2010. In 2000, 98.67 percent of people with this surname were white, and by 2010, this figure had decreased slightly to 96.1 percent. There were no recorded individuals who identified as Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic, Black, or American Indian and Alaskan Native for either year. Similarly, there were no individuals who identified as belonging to two or more races in either 2000 or 2010.

	2000	2010	Change
White	98.67%	96.1%	-2.6%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
Two or More Races	0%	0%	0%
Hispanic	0%	0%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0%	0%