Tingle
Usually a surname from a place-name, most likely referring to someone from or near Tingley/Tinghill.
The #7,103 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 65,523 Americans shares it.
Etymology
The surname is most likely locational. One old explanation connects it with Tingley in Yorkshire, treating it as a form of a place-name built from Old English elements, probably including -ley “clearing, meadow” in later interpretation. Another historical account links it to Tinghill/Tinghilli, glossed as a place connected with a meeting or court-hill from Old English þing “assembly, court” and hyll “hill.”
History
Nineteenth-century surname writers generally treated Tingle as an English local surname, with early spellings such as Tynghill and Tjinghyl suggesting a Yorkshire origin. Harrison also notes that the name may occasionally have been influenced by, or reformed into, a form related to Tindal, but this was presented as only a sporadic possibility. The surname is not especially common but is established in England and later appears in American records as well.
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Fun fact
An early recorded form cited by surname scholars is Ricardus Tynghill in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379.
From the historical record
“TINGHILLI (Eng.) Dweller at the Meeting TINGLE for Court Hill [O.E. ^ing, a meeting, court of justice + hyll] The interdental (Ih) sound has been lost through Scand. influence (see under TIngay) : we find a 'Ricardus Tynghill' in the Yorks Poll-Tax a.d. 1379, which name had becomeTjin^^/ by the 1 5th cent. (Celt. +…”
— Surnames of the United Kingdom: a concise etymological dictionary (2 vols in 1)