Thorne

At the 2020 census, 18,097 Americans bore the surname Thorne — 1,946th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 16,500.

By the numbers

People: 18,097
Rank: 1,946th
How common: 1 in 16,500
Per 100,000: 6.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Thorne described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 73.0%
Black, not Hispanic 16.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Thorne

Bella Thorne (born 1997)American actress and singer
Kip S. Thorne (born 1940)American physicist
Courtney Thorne-Smith (born 1967)American actress
Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne (born 1943)Catholic cardinal
Dyanne Thorne (1936–2020)American actress
Dominique Thorne (born 1997)American actress
Callie Thorne (born 1969)American actress
George Thorne (born 1993)English association football player

People named Thorne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Thorne

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.