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The Tilly surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,315 people carried this name — #20,239 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 222,200 people counted. That is up 13% from 1,166 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Tilly surname

Tilly: a surname from placenames.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Tilly» (French), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 1,209 people named Tilly.

11 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 61 départements, most often Côtes-d’Armor.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 11
Côtes-d’Armor 512
Paris 108
Finistère 104
Moselle 52
Ille-et-Vilaine 41
Seine-Maritime 33
Loire-Atlantique 29
Morbihan 25

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Belgium’s population register

At least 41 people named Tilly live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Hainaut 30
West Flanders 6
Brussels-Capital 5

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

In the Nordic population registers

568 people named Tilly is counted in Sweden.

Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.

Counted, by country

Sweden (2022) 568

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).

Who carried it

People named Tilly,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Francisco Javier Everardo-Tilly
    Francisco Javier Everardo-Tilly 1712–1795 · naval officer
  • Alexandre Francois Auguste de Grasse
    Alexandre Francois Auguste de Grasse 1765–1845 · soldier
  • Kathleen Letitia Tilly d. 1919
  • Melita Tilly d. 1931
  • Johann Tilly 1716–1781 · theatre manager
  • Johann Baptista Tilly 1763–1807 · actor

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

Nearby in the index

Surnames next to Tilly.

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