Thames

7,180 people in the United States were counted with the surname Thames in the 2020 census, making it the 4,779th most common in the country. That is about one person in 41,600.

By the numbers

People: 7,180
Rank: 4,779th
How common: 1 in 41,600
Per 100,000: 2.4

Where the name comes from

From Middle English Temse, Temese, from Old English Temes, Temese (compare Welsh Tafwys), from Latin Tamesis, Tamesas. Variant spellings with h arose in Middle English due to the mistaken assumption of a Greek etymology. The modern spelling with a stems from either the East Saxon dialects of Middle English and Old English or the influence of Tamesis.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 56.6%
Black, not Hispanic 34.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Thames

Mason Thames (born 2007)American actor

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

Surnames like Thames

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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.