The surname Thakkar
A Gujarati surname, carried by 3,157 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex T260
Origin
Gujarati origin
Borrowed from Gujarati ઠક્કર (ṭhakkar).
One of 18 Gujarati surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,157 people named Thakkar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 97,797 Americans. That is up 79% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,760.
Who is named Thakkar
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Thakkar identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 2.1% as two or more races and 1.7% as white (not Hispanic).
- Asian and Pacific Islander 95%
- Two or more races 2.1%
- White (not Hispanic) 1.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Thakkar has the Soundex code T260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T260.
Other Gujarati surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Thakkar come from?
- Borrowed from Gujarati ઠક્કર (ṭhakkar).
- How common is the surname Thakkar?
- 3,157 people in the United States had the surname Thakkar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 97,797 Americans. It ranked 10,204th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Thakkar?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Thakkar identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 2.1% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Thakkar getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,760 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,157 in 2010, up 79%.