The THOMAS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	710,696	14	0.263	2,634
United States (1880 census)	147,532	14	0.295	2,951
Change since 1880	+563164	0	-0.032	-317
Other Countries
Australia	27,276	13	0.167	1,669
United Kingdom	145,711	9	0.317	3,173

Top States for THOMAS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	54,283	23	0.260	2,603
Florida	48,875	14	0.306	3,058
California	47,503	35	0.140	1,402
Georgia	36,277	8	0.443	4,431
Ohio	34,268	10	0.302	3,018
Top States for THOMAS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	24,740	8	0.556	5,563
Louisiana	24,233	8	0.542	5,422
Washington DC	2,688	8	0.470	4,699
Mississippi	12,944	13	0.455	4,550
Georgia	36,277	8	0.443	4,431

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called THOMAS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called THOMAS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called THOMAS in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a THOMAS by picking someone at random in Alabama than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of THOMAS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the THOMAS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the THOMAS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of THOMAS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	394,649	55.53
Black/African American	271,273	38.17
Mixed Race	14,214	2
Asian/Pacific	11,584	1.63
White (Hispanic)	11,798	1.66
Native American/Alaskan	7,178	1.01

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the THOMAS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to THOMAS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as THOMAS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.