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    The surname Thorington

    An English place surname, carried by 606 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex T652

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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). Thorington is more common than 77.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English þorn (“thorn”) + -ing + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), the same etymology of Thorrington.

    Thorington is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 606 people named Thorington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 509,481 Americans. That is down 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 620.

    #36,838
    rank among US surnames
    606
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -2.3%
    change since 2000 (was #34,554)

    Who is named Thorington

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

    77% of people named Thorington identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 77%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 17%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Thorington come from?
    From Old English þorn (“thorn”) + -ing + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), the same etymology of Thorrington.
    How common is the surname Thorington?
    606 people in the United States had the surname Thorington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 509,481 Americans. It ranked 36,838th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Thorington?
    In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Thorington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Thorington?
    Thorington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Thorington getting more or less common?
    Less common. 620 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 606 in 2010, down 2.3%.