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    The surname Thon

    A surname, carried by 1,066 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). Thon is more common than 85.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,066 people named Thon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 289,630 Americans. That is up 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,044.

    #23,737
    rank among US surnames
    1,066
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.1%
    change since 2000 (was #22,891)

    Who is named Thon

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

    81% of people named Thon identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 5.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 11%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Thon

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

    Questions

    How common is the surname Thon?
    1,066 people in the United States had the surname Thon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 289,630 Americans. It ranked 23,737th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Thon?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Thon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Thon getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,044 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,066 in 2010, up 2.1%.