Tree Surname
Approximately 4,776 people bear this surname
Tree Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'at the tree' or trees, from residence thereby; compare Oak, Birch, Box, &c.
Johannes del Trees, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
1583. William Leevers and Elizabeth Tree: Marriage Lic.
Read More About This SurnameTree Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1,293 | 1:43,092 | 5,485 |
| United States | 1,057 | 1:342,913 | 30,845 |
| Egypt | 366 | 1:251,191 | 17,305 |
| Australia | 361 | 1:74,780 | 8,771 |
| South Africa | 312 | 1:173,646 | 19,205 |
| Canada | 182 | 1:202,448 | 19,751 |
| Morocco | 170 | 1:202,801 | 34,956 |
| India | 107 | 1:7,168,835 | 157,365 |
| China | 99 | 1:13,811,329 | 820 |
| New Zealand | 76 | 1:59,583 | 9,301 |
| Bahrain | 73 | 1:18,474 | 3,432 |
| Iran | 71 | 1:1,081,444 | 48,589 |
| Thailand | 65 | 1:1,086,744 | 162,071 |
| Wales | 61 | 1:50,730 | 4,716 |
| Malaysia | 46 | 1:641,179 | 30,740 |
| Jamaica | 41 | 1:69,999 | 3,452 |
| Singapore | 39 | 1:141,223 | 6,278 |
| Taiwan | 37 | 1:633,642 | 4,637 |
| Scotland | 36 | 1:148,717 | 8,826 |
| Indonesia | 28 | 1:4,723,186 | 228,527 |
| France | 24 | 1:2,767,613 | 196,808 |
| Austria | 23 | 1:370,236 | 39,193 |
| Netherlands | 19 | 1:888,799 | 62,169 |
| Hong Kong | 13 | 1:564,268 | 3,428 |
| Spain | 10 | 1:4,675,204 | 78,608 |
| Bangladesh | 9 | 1:17,706,308 | 13,537 |
| Saudi Arabia | 9 | 1:3,428,424 | 32,607 |
| Mexico | 9 | 1:13,791,801 | 45,470 |
| Zimbabwe | 8 | 1:1,929,780 | 92,581 |
| United Arab Emirates | 6 | 1:1,527,046 | 51,993 |
| Germany | 6 | 1:13,417,576 | 340,600 |
| Pakistan | 6 | 1:29,773,981 | 92,487 |
| Ireland | 6 | 1:784,823 | 16,062 |
| Niger | 5 | 1:3,838,403 | 64,195 |
| Philippines | 5 | 1:20,247,645 | 262,352 |
| Russia | 5 | 1:28,824,611 | 530,332 |
| Denmark | 4 | 1:1,411,179 | 60,800 |
| Portugal | 4 | 1:2,604,560 | 16,079 |
| Myanmar | 4 | 1:12,984,496 | 1,309 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| South Korea | 4 | 1:12,810,064 | 2,073 |
| Kuwait | 4 | 1:950,174 | 18,811 |
| Israel | 4 | 1:2,139,408 | 95,907 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Vietnam | 4 | 1:23,161,514 | 3,610 |
| Japan | 3 | 1:42,614,764 | 59,022 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| Cambodia | 3 | 1:5,162,382 | 10,688 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Ukraine | 2 | 1:22,761,348 | 425,733 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Northern Ireland | 2 | 1:922,518 | 18,701 |
| Costa Rica | 2 | 1:2,390,034 | 10,205 |
| Georgia | 2 | 1:1,872,772 | 35,618 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| San Marino | 1 | 1:33,214 | 932 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Brunei | 1 | 1:418,731 | 3,893 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 7 | 1:632,838 | 19,259 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 707 | 1:34,477 | 4,512 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:51,882 | 3,898 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:1,568,416 | 19,290 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 187 | 1:268,549 | 21,901 |
The alternate forms: Trée (2) are calculated separately.
Tree (1,453) may also be a first name.
Tree Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'at the tree' or trees, from residence thereby; compare Oak, Birch, Box, &c.
Johannes del Trees, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
1583. William Leevers and Elizabeth Tree: Marriage Lic. (London).
1605. Married — John Tree and Jane Baily: St. James, Clerkenwell.
1756. — John Barnaby and Elizabeth Tree: St. George, Hanover Square.
(English) Dweller by a (conspicuous) Tree [Old English tréow] (French) belonging to Trie (Oise, etc.); or Dweller at the Uncultivated or Fallow Land [Old French trie, “terrain vague, inculte”]
From the French, Tre; a personal name.
Tree: (Anglo-Saxon treow). Places are called after some peculiarly old and perhaps sacred tree. Thus we have Tiptree, Heavitree, Wavertree, Pichtree, Harptree, Plymtree. Till within the memory of old men in many places in Devon, there were “dancing trees” in villages, peculiarly cut at the head, on the top of which a platform was erected, upon which, on the occasion of the village revel, dancing took place, and about which the elders of the parish assembled to converse. This was a survival of religious homage paid to the sacred tree. In some names the treow has gone through corruption. Austey in Warwickshire was in Anglo-Saxon Adulfstreow, Eadulf's tree. Tree in an abraded form is found in Coventry, Oswestry perhaps—but in this probably the Welsh tref is to be found. Sometimes “tree” becomes der, as in Mappowder, the maple-tree; Langtree is the long tree. In Ireland, Kildare is the church of the oak. The Celtic tre or tref, “the homestead of,” precedes the name of the owner, and rarely occurs as a suffix, as Trelawney, Trefry.
Tree Demographics
Average Tree Salary in
United States
$45,293 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Tree Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tree Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Tree is most common in England. It may occur in the variant forms: Trée. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Tree? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 99,165th most common surname on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 1,525,868 people. This last name is primarily found in Europe, where 32 percent of Tree are found; 29 percent are found in Northern Europe and 29 percent are found in British Isles. It is also the 204,621st most prevalent first name world-wide It is held by 1,453 people.
The surname Tree is most common in England, where it is carried by 1,293 people, or 1 in 43,092. In England it is primarily concentrated in: Greater London, where 15 percent live, Kent, where 14 percent live and East Sussex, where 7 percent live. Apart from England Tree is found in 82 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 22 percent live and Egypt, where 8 percent live.
Tree Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Tree has changed through the years. In England the number of people carrying the Tree last name increased 183 percent between 1881 and 2014; in The United States it increased 565 percent between 1880 and 2014; in Wales it increased 6,100 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it contracted 14 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Tree Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the surname is principally Anglican (100%) in Ireland.
In The United States those bearing the Tree last name are 21.78% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 68.55% registered with the political party.
The amount Tree earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 140.95% more than the national average, earning R 572,592 per year; in United States they earn 4.97% more than the national average, earning $45,293 USD per year and in Canada they earn 11.23% less than the national average, earning $44,103 CAD per year.
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