# Thackeray (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/thackeray/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 758 |
| US rank (2010) | 30,735 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 407,316 people |
| Change since 2000 | +16% (656 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈθækəɹi/, 3 syllables |
| Variant spellings | Thakre |

## Etymology

An English habitational surname from a place in Yorkshire, of Old Norse origin, from þak (“thatch, roof”) + rá (“nook”), therefore referring to a "place with thatching".

## Who carries it

Share of people named Thackeray in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 94% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2% |
| Two or more races | 1.1% |

## Similar surnames

Thacker, Thakkar, Thakur, Tacker, Tucker, Teixeira, Tessier, Tasker, Tiger, Tooker, Texeira, Tokar.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.