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    The surname Then

    An occupational surname, carried by 2,108 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex T500

    Then: #14,227 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Then #14,227, 2,108 people Then: #14,227 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Then #14,227, 2,108 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Then is more common than 91.2% of them.

    Origin

    * As a south German surname, from the personal name Thön, a form of Anthony. * Also as a German surname, a variant of Ten, occupational surname for a mintmaster, from obsolete Middle Low German ten, tene (“blank; disk from which a coin is made”), possibly related to Proto-Germanic *tainaz (“metal rod”), or perhaps otherwise from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch”). * Also as a German name, from the noun Tenne (“threshing-floor”). * As a Chinese surname, a Romanization of 鄧 /邓 (dèng) (see Deng) and 田 (tián) (see Tian).

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

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,108 people named Then in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 146,464 Americans. That is up 32% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,603.

    #14,227
    rank among US surnames
    2,108
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +31.5%
    change since 2000 (was #16,502)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #14,220Cella2,110146,325
    #14,223Lohse2,109146,394
    #14,227Kepner2,108146,464
    #14,233Gully2,107146,533

    Who is named Then

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

    66% of people named Then identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 24% as white (not Hispanic) and 8.8% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 66%
    • White (not Hispanic) 24%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 8.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Then

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

    Questions

    Where does the surname Then come from?
    * As a south German surname, from the personal name Thön, a form of Anthony. * Also as a German surname, a variant of Ten, occupational surname for a mintmaster, from obsolete Middle Low German ten, tene (“blank; disk from which a coin is made”), possibly related to Proto-Germanic *tainaz (“metal…
    How common is the surname Then?
    2,108 people in the United States had the surname Then in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 146,464 Americans. It ranked 14,227th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Then?
    In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Then identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 24% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Then?
    Then is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Then getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,603 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,108 in 2010, up 32%.