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    The surname Thackeray

    A place surname, carried by 758 people in the United States.

    Pronounced /ˈθækəɹi/ 3 syllables Soundex T260

    Thackeray: #30,735 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Thackeray #30,735, 758 people Thackeray: #30,735 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Thackeray #30,735, 758 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Thackeray is more common than 81.1% of them.

    Origin

    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".

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

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 758 people named Thackeray in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 407,316 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 656.

    #30,735
    rank among US surnames
    758
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +15.5%
    change since 2000 (was #32,939)

    Who is named Thackeray

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

    94% of people named Thackeray identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Thakre

    Surnames that sound like Thackeray

    Thackeray has the Soundex code T260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T260.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Thackeray come from?
    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".
    How common is the surname Thackeray?
    758 people in the United States had the surname Thackeray in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 407,316 Americans. It ranked 30,735th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Thackeray?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Thackeray identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    How do you pronounce Thackeray?
    Thackeray is /ˈθækəɹi/, 3 syllables.
    What type of surname is Thackeray?
    Thackeray is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Thackeray getting more or less common?
    More common. 656 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 758 in 2010, up 16%.
    What are other spellings of Thackeray?
    Thakre.