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There are approximately 487 people named Try in the UK. That makes it the 10,610th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 8 are named Try.

Region of origin

British Isles

Country of origin

England

Language of origin

English

Religion of origin

Christian

Classification

English


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The Try surname in historical dictionaries

B TRY. A common termination of local names, as Allstry, Oswestry, lugestrie. A- Sax. treon\ a tree. Most of the places so designated anciently possessed some tree, reraarkahle either for its age or size, or from some striking event associated with it. The veneration in which individual trees were held, in the patriarchal and Druidical ages, is well known.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

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