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The THORNS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 405 48877 0 1
United States (1880 census) 64 43196 0 1
Change since 1880 +341 -5681 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 13 72855 0 1
United Kingdom 237 14828 0.001 5
Top States for THORNS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 62 23125 0.001 6
Texas 57 26528 0.000 3
North Carolina 40 14835 0.000 5
Illinois 37 39860 0.000 3
California 29 79015 0.000 1
Top States for THORNS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nevada 22 11800 0.001 11
Arkansas 22 11303 0.001 8
Alaska 4 30469 0.001 6
Michigan 62 23125 0.001 6
South Dakota 4 25956 0.001 5

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of THORNS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the THORNS 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 THORNS 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 THORNS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 308 76.05
White (Caucasian) 85 20.99
Mixed Race 6 1.48
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of THORNS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of THORNS.

Similar names to THORNS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as THORNS.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for THORNS

The following words are slight variants of THORNS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.