Thorpe

Thorpe is the 1,642nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 21,301 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,000.

By the numbers

People: 21,301
Rank: 1,642nd
How common: 1 in 14,000
Per 100,000: 7.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

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

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.8%
Black, not Hispanic 24.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Thorpe

Jim Thorpe (died 1953)American track and field athlete and baseball player
Ian Thorpe (born 1982)Australian swimmer
Richard Thorpe (1896–1991)American actor and film director
Jeremy Thorpe (1929–2014)British politician
Isabelle Thorpe (born 2001)British synchronised swimmer
Tom Thorpe (born 1993)English footballer
Otis Thorpe (born 1962)American basketball player
Alexis Thorpe (born 1980)American actress

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

Surnames like Thorpe

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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.