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    The surname Thain

    An English occupational surname, carried by 534 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex T500

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Thain is more common than 74.8% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Status surname for a noble retainer or attendant, from Middle English theyn (“thane; noble”).

    Thain is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    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 534 people named Thain in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 578,175 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 517.

    #40,856
    rank among US surnames
    534
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.3%
    change since 2000 (was #39,946)

    Who is named Thain

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

    87% of people named Thain identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.1% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 5.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Thane
    • Thayne

    Surnames that sound like Thain

    Thain has the Soundex code T500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T500.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Thain come from?
    Status surname for a noble retainer or attendant, from Middle English theyn (“thane; noble”).
    How common is the surname Thain?
    534 people in the United States had the surname Thain in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 578,175 Americans. It ranked 40,856th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Thain?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Thain identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.1% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    What type of surname is Thain?
    Thain is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Thain getting more or less common?
    More common. 517 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 534 in 2010, up 3.3%.
    What are other spellings of Thain?
    Thane and Thayne.