The surname Thornbury
An English place surname, carried by 552 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex T651
Origin
English origin
From Old English þorn (“thorn”) + byriġ, the dative case of burg (“fortified place”).
Thornbury 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 552 people named Thornbury in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 559,322 Americans. That is down 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 569.
Who is named Thornbury
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Thornbury identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 1.1% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.8%
- Two or more races 1.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Variant spellings
Surnames that sound like Thornbury
Thornbury has the Soundex code T651, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T651.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Thornbury come from?
- From Old English þorn (“thorn”) + byriġ, the dative case of burg (“fortified place”).
- How common is the surname Thornbury?
- 552 people in the United States had the surname Thornbury in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 559,322 Americans. It ranked 39,773rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Thornbury?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Thornbury identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
- What type of surname is Thornbury?
- Thornbury is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Thornbury getting more or less common?
- Less common. 569 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 552 in 2010, down 3.0%.
- What are other spellings of Thornbury?
- Thornberry.