Thatcher

At the 2020 census, 9,450 Americans bore the surname Thatcher — 3,662nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 31,600.

By the numbers

People: 9,450
Rank: 3,662nd
How common: 1 in 31,600
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.9%
Hispanic or Latino 5.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013)British stateswoman and prime minister
Denis Thatcher (1915–2003)English businessman, husband of Margaret Thatcher
Sophie Thatcher (born 2000)American actress
Mark Thatcher (born 1953)British businessman
Carol Thatcher (born 1953)British journalist
Ben Thatcher (born 1975)British footballer
Torin Thatcher (1905–1981)British actor
Heather Thatcher (1896–1987)British actress

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

Surnames like Thatcher

Also a first name

Thatcher has been given to 4,967 American babies as a first name since 1965, peaking in 2021. 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.