How common is the surname Thorn?

9,988 people in the United States had the surname Thorn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 30,912 Americans. It ranked 3,569th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Thorn getting more or less common?

More common. 9,776 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,988 in 2010, up 2.2%.

The surname Thorn

A place surname, carried by 9,988 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex T650

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Thorn is more common than 97.8% of them.

Origin

A topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a thorn bush.

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

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,988 people named Thorn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 30,912 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,776.

#3,569

rank among US surnames

9,988

people in 2010

3.4

per 100,000 Americans

+2.2%

change since 2000 (was #3,347)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,560	Tuck	10,018	30,819
#3,561	Mauldin	10,011	30,841
#3,562	Nilson	10,010	30,844
#3,563	Blaylock	10,008	30,850
#3,564	Moriarty	10,005	30,859
#3,567	Starling	10,004	30,862
#3,568	Haller	9,992	30,899

Who is named Thorn

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

84% of people named Thorn identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 84%
Black (not Hispanic) 9.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Thorne

Surnames that sound like Thorn

Thorn has the Soundex code T650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T650.

Questions

How common is the surname Thorn?: 9,988 people in the United States had the surname Thorn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 30,912 Americans. It ranked 3,569th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Thorn?: In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Thorn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Thorn?: Thorn is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Thorn getting more or less common?: More common. 9,776 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,988 in 2010, up 2.2%.
What are other spellings of Thorn?: Thorne.