Thai

At the 2020 census, 12,899 Americans bore the surname Thai — 2,726th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 23,200.

By the numbers

People: 12,899
Rank: 2,726th
How common: 1 in 23,200
Per 100,000: 4.3

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 95.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
White, not Hispanic 1.8%
Hispanic or Latino 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Thai

Hoàng Văn Thái (1915–1986)Vietnamese general

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

Surnames like Thai

Also a first name

Thai has been given to 1,426 American babies as a first name since 1975, peaking in 2000. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.