How common is the surname Thelen?

5,657 people in the United States had the surname Thelen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 54,578 Americans. It ranked 6,065th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Thelen?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Thelen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Thelen getting more or less common?

More common. 5,089 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,657 in 2010, up 11%.

The surname Thelen

A surname, carried by 5,657 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T450

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Thelen is more common than 96.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,657 people named Thelen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 54,578 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,089.

#6,065

rank among US surnames

5,657

people in 2010

1.9

per 100,000 Americans

+11.2%

change since 2000 (was #6,196)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,061	Dillman	5,660	54,549
#6,062	Boatright	5,659	54,558
#6,063	Rolon	5,658	54,568
#6,065	Thelen	5,657	54,578

Who is named Thelen

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

96% of people named Thelen identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Thelen

Thielen

Thelen has the Soundex code T450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T450.

Questions

How common is the surname Thelen?: 5,657 people in the United States had the surname Thelen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 54,578 Americans. It ranked 6,065th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Thelen?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Thelen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Thelen getting more or less common?: More common. 5,089 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,657 in 2010, up 11%.