How common is the surname Thorpe?

21,813 people in the United States had the surname Thorpe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,154 Americans. It ranked 1,651st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Thorpe?

Jim Thorpe, American track and field athlete and baseball player (1888-1953), followed by Ian Thorpe.

Where is the surname Thorpe most common?

Wikidata records people named Thorpe in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and 1 other country.

How do you pronounce Thorpe?

Thorpe is /ˈθɔɹp/, one syllable.

Is the surname Thorpe getting more or less common?

More common. 20,960 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,813 in 2010, up 4.1%.

The surname Thorpe

An English place surname, carried by 21,813 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈθɔɹp/ 1 syllable Soundex T610

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Thorpe is more common than 99% of them.

Origin

English origin

Various places in England, from Old English þorp. See also thorpe.

Thorpe 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 21,813 people named Thorpe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 14,154 Americans. That is up 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 20,960.

#1,651

rank among US surnames

21,813

people in 2010

7.4

per 100,000 Americans

+4.1%

change since 2000 (was #1,569)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,642	Regan	21,951	14,065
#1,643	Bragg	21,934	14,076
#1,644	Engel	21,933	14,077
#1,645	Valadez	21,859	14,124
#1,646	Carbajal	21,838	14,138
#1,647	Redmond	21,834	14,141
#1,648	Jarrett	21,821	14,149

Who is named Thorpe

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

69% of people named Thorpe identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 69%
Black (not Hispanic) 25%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 2.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Thorpes

10 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Jim Thorpe
American track and field athlete and baseball player (1888-1953)
Ian Thorpe
Australian swimmer, born 1982
Richard Thorpe
American actor and film director (1896-1991)
Otis Thorpe
American basketball player (born 1962)
Alexis Thorpe
American actress, born 1980
Chris Thorpe
American luger, born 1970
Lidia Thorpe
Australian politician, born 1973
Jerry Thorpe
American film director, writer (1926–2018)
Thomas Edward Thorpe
British chemist (1845–1925)
Marion Stein
Austrian-born British concert pianist, 1926–2014

Notable Thorpes come mostly from the United States (6), Australia (2) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Thorpe

Thorpe has the Soundex code T610, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T610.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Thorpe come from?: Various places in England, from Old English þorp. See also thorpe.
How common is the surname Thorpe?: 21,813 people in the United States had the surname Thorpe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,154 Americans. It ranked 1,651st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Thorpe?: In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Thorpe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Thorpe?: Jim Thorpe, American track and field athlete and baseball player (1888-1953), followed by Ian Thorpe.
Where is the surname Thorpe most common?: Wikidata records people named Thorpe in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and 1 other country.
How do you pronounce Thorpe?: Thorpe is /ˈθɔɹp/, one syllable.
What type of surname is Thorpe?: Thorpe is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Thorpe getting more or less common?: More common. 20,960 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,813 in 2010, up 4.1%.