How common is the surname Thornberry?

2,219 people in the United States had the surname Thornberry in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 139,137 Americans. It ranked 13,646th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Thornberry?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Thornberry identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Thornberry getting more or less common?

About as common. 2,220 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,219 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Thornberry

A surname, carried by 2,219 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex T651

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Thornberry is more common than 91.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,219 people named Thornberry in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 139,137 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,220.

#13,646

rank among US surnames

2,219

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #12,757)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,640	Caples	2,221	139,012
#13,642	Paw	2,220	139,075
#13,646	Eid	2,219	139,137
#13,654	Victorino	2,218	139,200

Who is named Thornberry

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

96% of people named Thornberry identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Thornberry

Thornberry has the Soundex code T651, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T651.

Questions

How common is the surname Thornberry?: 2,219 people in the United States had the surname Thornberry in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 139,137 Americans. It ranked 13,646th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Thornberry?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Thornberry identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Thornberry getting more or less common?: About as common. 2,220 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,219 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.