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    The surname Thrush

    A nickname surname, carried by 2,196 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex T620

    Thrush: #13,775 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Thrush #13,775, 2,196 people Thrush: #13,775 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Thrush #13,775, 2,196 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Thrush is more common than 91.5% of them.

    Origin

    English surname from the noun thrush.

    Thrush is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,196 people named Thrush in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 140,595 Americans. That is up 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,143.

    #13,775
    rank among US surnames
    2,196
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.5%
    change since 2000 (was #13,092)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,771Badgley2,197140,531
    #13,775Balke2,196140,595
    #13,781Pettengill2,195140,659

    Who is named Thrush

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

    95% of people named Thrush identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Thrush

    Thrush has the Soundex code T620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T620.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Thrush come from?
    English surname from the noun thrush.
    How common is the surname Thrush?
    2,196 people in the United States had the surname Thrush in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 140,595 Americans. It ranked 13,775th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Thrush?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Thrush identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Thrush?
    Thrush is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Thrush getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,143 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,196 in 2010, up 2.5%.