Find out how popular the last name Tidball is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Tidball.

Tidball, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Tidball surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Tidball in America

Tidball is the 31211th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Tidball surname appeared 743 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Tidball.

We can also compare 2010 data for Tidball to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Tidball

The surname Tidball originated in England in the late 12th century. It is derived from the Old English words "tid" meaning time and "ball" meaning ball or spherical object. The name likely referred to someone who kept or measured time, perhaps a bell ringer or an early clockmaker.

Tidball was first found in county records from Somerset and Gloucestershire in southwest England dating back to the late 1100s. Similar early spellings included Tidebal, Tydeball, and Tyddeball. The name does not appear in the famous Domesday Book of 1086 as it emerged slightly later.

One of the earliest known bearers of the name was Robert Tidball, a landowner in Somerset mentioned in tax records from 1272. In 1319, a John Tydeball is recorded as living in the village of Cheddar in Somerset.

The Tidball name spread gradually across southern England over the following centuries. Nicholas Tydball was born around 1425 in the town of Marshfield, Gloucestershire. He worked as a church bell ringer. Separate records show a Thomas Tiddeball was a clockmaker in Bristol in 1487.

Moving into the 1600s, Edward Tidball (1619-1695) was a well-known Puritan minister who preached in Wapping, London. He published several religious texts attacking the Church of England. Around the same time, Lieutenant Joseph Tidball (1628-1713) fought for Parliament forces in the English Civil War.

Later examples include the artist John Tidball (1768-1829) who painted portraits of British nobility, and Thomas Tidball (1794-1868), an officer in the Royal Horse Artillery who fought at the Battle of Waterloo against Napoleon in 1815.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Tidball

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Tidball.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Tidball was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Tidball has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Tidball was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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