How common is the surname Thackston?

1,000 people in the United States had the surname Thackston in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 308,746 Americans. It ranked 24,874th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Thackston getting more or less common?

About as common. 1,000 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,000 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Thackston

A surname, carried by 1,000 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T235

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Thackston is more common than 84.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,000 people named Thackston in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 308,746 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,000.

#24,874

rank among US surnames

1,000

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #23,638)

Who is named Thackston

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

94% of people named Thackston identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Black (not Hispanic) 4.0%
Two or more races 0.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Thackston

Thaxton

Thackston has the Soundex code T235, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T235.

Questions

How common is the surname Thackston?: 1,000 people in the United States had the surname Thackston in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 308,746 Americans. It ranked 24,874th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Thackston?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Thackston identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Thackston getting more or less common?: About as common. 1,000 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,000 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.