Thao

At the 2020 census, 26,668 Americans bore the surname Thao — 1,289th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,200.

By the numbers

People: 26,668
Rank: 1,289th
How common: 1 in 11,200
Per 100,000: 8.9

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 97.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.1%
White, not Hispanic 1.0%
Hispanic or Latino 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.04%

Surnames like Thao

Also a first name

Thao has been given to 1,237 American babies as a first name since 1975, peaking in 1984. 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.