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    The surname Tabor

    A Czech surname, carried by 15,445 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex T160

    Tabor: #2,360 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Tabor #2,360, 15,445 people Tabor: #2,360 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Tabor #2,360, 15,445 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tabor is more common than 98.5% of them.

    Origin

    Czech origin

    From German Tabor, from Czech tábor (“camp”).

    One of 96 Czech surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 15,445 people named Tabor in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 19,990 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 15,058.

    #2,360
    rank among US surnames
    15,445
    people in 2010
    5.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.6%
    change since 2000 (was #2,213)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,351Leary15,50519,913
    #2,352Borden15,50019,919
    #2,354Nagy15,49719,923
    #2,355Chatman15,47319,954
    #2,356Dow15,47219,955
    #2,357Carlos15,46219,968
    #2,358Antonio15,46119,969

    Who is named Tabor

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

    86% of people named Tabor identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Tabors

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Horace Tabor
      American politician (1830-1899)
    • James Tabor
      Biblical scholar, born 1946

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Thabor

    Surnames that sound like Tabor

    Tabor has the Soundex code T160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T160.

    Other Czech surnames

    All 96 Czech surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Tabor come from?
    From German Tabor, from Czech tábor (“camp”).
    How common is the surname Tabor?
    15,445 people in the United States had the surname Tabor in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 19,990 Americans. It ranked 2,360th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tabor?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Tabor identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Tabor?
    Horace Tabor, American politician (1830-1899), followed by James Tabor.
    Where is the surname Tabor most common?
    Wikidata records people named Tabor in the United States.
    Is the surname Tabor getting more or less common?
    More common. 15,058 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 15,445 in 2010, up 2.6%.
    What are other spellings of Tabor?
    Thabor.