# Thurlow (surname)

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

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,354 |
| US rank (2010) | 13,042 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 131,158 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.6% (2,316 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from the villages of Great and Little Thurlow, in Suffolk, from an unexplained first element + Old English hlǣw (“mountain, hill, mound”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Thurlow 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) | 96% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Thurlow in Australia.

## People named Thurlow

- Lorraine Crapp, Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, former world record-holder

## Similar surnames

Terrell, Turley, Tyrrell, Terrill, Trail, Trull, Tyrell, Thrall, Tirrell, Trillo, Triolo, Trowell.

## 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.