The Tiger surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,428 people carried this name — #12,715 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 122,000 people counted. That is up 8% from 2,240 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 271 people named Tiger.
3 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 27 départements, most often Loire-Atlantique.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
664 people named Tiger are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Tiger,
with a public archive behind them.
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Félicie Tiger 1820–1890 · painter -
Louise Filliaux-Tiger 1848–1916 · composer -
Frans Johan Tiger 1849–1919 · painter -
Adam Tiger 1883–1966 · mechanical engineer -
Jean Tiger 1623–1698 · painter
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Christophe César Jean-Baptiste Tiger 1759–1825 · printer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Tiger.
- Tian 3,547 · U.S. census
- Tiano 931 · U.S. census
- Tibaldi 160 · U.S. census
- Tiberi 798 · U.S. census
- Tieche 133 · U.S. census
- Tierce 551 · U.S. census
- Tille 147 · U.S. census
- Tillet 160 · U.S. census
- Tillie 475 · U.S. census
- Tillmann 427 · U.S. census
- Tillou 189 · U.S. census
- Tilly 1,315 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Tiger is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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