How common is the surname Thornburg?

7,309 people in the United States had the surname Thornburg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,242 Americans. It ranked 4,827th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Thornburg?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Thornburg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Thornburg getting more or less common?

More common. 7,156 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,309 in 2010, up 2.1%.

The surname Thornburg

A surname, carried by 7,309 people in the United States.

2 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). Thornburg is more common than 97% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,309 people named Thornburg in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 42,242 Americans. That is up 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,156.

#4,827

rank among US surnames

7,309

people in 2010

2.5

per 100,000 Americans

+2.1%

change since 2000 (was #4,551)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,818	Pippin	7,326	42,144
#4,819	Bristow	7,323	42,161
#4,820	Zamarripa	7,322	42,167
#4,822	Mulder	7,317	42,196
#4,823	Garris	7,316	42,201
#4,825	Johnstone	7,313	42,219
#4,826	Bosch	7,312	42,224

Who is named Thornburg

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

93% of people named Thornburg identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Two or more races 1.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Thornburg

Thornburg 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 Thornburg?: 7,309 people in the United States had the surname Thornburg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,242 Americans. It ranked 4,827th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Thornburg?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Thornburg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Thornburg getting more or less common?: More common. 7,156 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,309 in 2010, up 2.1%.