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    The surname Thies

    A surname, carried by 4,240 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex T200

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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). Thies is more common than 95.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,240 people named Thies in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 72,817 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,174.

    #7,807
    rank among US surnames
    4,240
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.6%
    change since 2000 (was #7,354)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,799Doggett4,24572,732
    #7,801Perera4,24272,783
    #7,803Mullaney4,24172,800
    #7,807Thies4,24072,817
    #7,810Shope4,23972,835
    #7,812Whitacre4,23872,852
    #7,815Danko4,23772,869

    Who is named Thies

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

    95% of people named Thies identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Thies

    Thies has the Soundex code T200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Thies?
    4,240 people in the United States had the surname Thies in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 72,817 Americans. It ranked 7,807th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Thies?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Thies identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Thies getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,174 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,240 in 2010, up 1.6%.