Theil is used as a family name or surname in England. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Theil
No. of characters: 5
Origin: England
Meaning:

A form of the Teal. Dweller at the sign of the teal meaning "a small duck".

Family name Theil is the variant form of the Teale. 1. Possibly from the bird, like Gander, Swan, etc. 2. The Scottish teil, a busy-body; a mean fellow. The word in this sense is sometimes written teal. 3. Teil, the birch tree.

How popular is Theil?

Theil is common in Germany, France, United States, Denmark, Austria, Netherlands, Romania, Poland.

Theil is ranked 71663 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Theils plummeted by 10.3 per cent to 479 since 2000 and slipped by 5918 spots and ranked at 44808. The last name was found in around 2 per million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 96.66 96.82
Hispanic or Latino 1.88 0.94
Theil is quite popular family name mostly used in Germany while Denmark is ahead in terms of density. Around 6888 people have been found who wears Theil as their family name. Theil is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with thousands of Theil:
2,993 Germany3,559
7,830 France1,137
Countries with hundreds of Theil:
39,976 United States771
1,739 Denmark319
5,465 Austria250
16,582 Netherlands165
15,417 Romania139
34,080 Poland136
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
80,212 Brazil80
42,460 Canada74
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
16,931 Hungary49
41,290 Australia48
14,299 Chile30
25,646 Sweden27
114,324 England16
31,311 Norway16
105,022 Italy15
407,040 Thailand11
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
82,436 Spain9
69,697 Switzerland7

Immigrants to US

From Germany

J. Theil was 32 years old when he migrated to USA on June 28, 1852. He lived in Germany where he worked as merchant and took Hiero from Antwerp. P. Theil, aged 30, 37 years old W. Theil, Peter Theil, aged 21, 50 years old Johann Theil, Jean Theil (37) Farmer, Elias Theil, aged 33, Friedericke Theil (30), 6 months old J. Theil, and 144 other Theil around 45.57% of whom were farmer while others worked as laborer and servant migrated to US from Antwerp, Amsterdam and Bremen.

Theil Namesakes

  • Henri Theil, Dutch econometrician
  • Anders Theil, Danish football manager and former player

Theil Namesakes

  • Henri Theil, Dutch econometrician
  • Anders Theil, Danish football manager and former player

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