How common is the surname Silverthorn?

1,077 people in the United States had the surname Silverthorn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 286,672 Americans. It ranked 23,576th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Silverthorn getting more or less common?

More common. 1,031 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,077 in 2010, up 4.5%.

The surname Silverthorn

An English place surname, carried by 1,077 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S416

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Silverthorn is more common than 85.5% of them.

Origin

English origin

Apparently a habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place, from Old English seolfor (“silver”) + þorn (“thorn; thorny bush”).

Silverthorn is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,077 people named Silverthorn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 286,672 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,031.

#23,576

rank among US surnames

1,077

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+4.5%

change since 2000 (was #23,128)

Who is named Silverthorn

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

93% of people named Silverthorn identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 2.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Silverthorne

Surnames that sound like Silverthorn

Silverthorn has the Soundex code S416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S416.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Silverthorn come from?: Apparently a habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place, from Old English seolfor (“silver”) + þorn (“thorn; thorny bush”).
How common is the surname Silverthorn?: 1,077 people in the United States had the surname Silverthorn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 286,672 Americans. It ranked 23,576th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Silverthorn?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Silverthorn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Silverthorn?: Silverthorn is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Silverthorn getting more or less common?: More common. 1,031 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,077 in 2010, up 4.5%.
What are other spellings of Silverthorn?: Silverthorne.