The THORPE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	20,960	1569	0.008	78
United States (1880 census)	2,538	2389	0.005	51
Change since 1880	+18422	+820	+0.003	+27
Other Countries
Australia	2,802	563	0.017	171
United Kingdom	16,459	345	0.036	358

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.

Classification and Origin of THORPE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	371	1.77
White (Hispanic)	340	1.62
Native American/Alaskan	147	0.7
Asian/Pacific	109	0.52
White (Caucasian)	14,850	70.85
Black/African American	5,141	24.53

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

Meaning of THORPE in historical publications

i" THORPE. THORP. _ A common local surname, tliere being numerous parishes in England so designated, besides an infinite number of smaller districts. As a tervii nation it is likewise very common, as in Althorpe. Sibthorpe, Calthorpe, Westhorpe. A-Snx. and old Danish, tliovp. Germ. doif. Worsaae defines it as " a collection of houses separated from some principal estate — a village." It was in use, as an English word, in the XVI. century. An old translation of Fortescue, De Leg. Ang. speaks of England being " so filled and replenished with lauded menue, that therein so siaall a tliorpe cannot be found wherein dwelleth not a knight, or an esquire, or such a householder as is called a franklein." TimoP is a corrupted iorm, whence the surnames Milthrop, Winthropp, &c.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to THORPE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as THORPE.

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.