Thayer

At the 2020 census, 15,779 Americans bore the surname Thayer — 2,243rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,900.

By the numbers

People: 15,779
Rank: 2,243rd
How common: 1 in 18,900
Per 100,000: 5.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Thayer

Tommy Thayer (born 1960)American guitarist
Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921)American artist
Jack Thayer (1894–1945)Titanic Survivor
Maria Thayer (born 1975)American actress
Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817–1897)American writer
W. W. Thayer (1827–1899)American judge
John Milton Thayer (1820–1906)Union Army general and politician
Brynn Thayer (born 1949)American actress

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

Surnames like Thayer

Also a first name

Thayer has been given to 1,437 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2014. See it as a given name.

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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.