# Thorne (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/thorne/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

An English surname from Middle English, variant of Thorn.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 18,738 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,922 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 16,477 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.8% (18,222 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Thorne in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 76% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 17% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 2.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Thorne in the United States and the United Kingdom.

## People named Thorne

- Bella Thorne, American actress and singer (born 1997)
- Kip S. Thorne, American physicist (born 1940)
- Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
- Dyanne Thorne, American actress (1943-2020)
- Dominique Thorne, American actress
- Callie Thorne, American actress
- Raymond Thorne, American swimmer (1887–1921)
- Martha Thorne, American architect (born 1953)
- Robert Folger Thorne, American botanist (1920-2015)
- Ken Thorne, British composer (1924-2014)
- Angela Thorne, British actress
- Stephen D. Thorne, American astronaut (1953–1986)

and 3 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Thorn, Throne, Torno, Tran, Trinh, Trahan, Tierney, Teran, Turney, Therrien, Tryon, Tarin.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.