Theobald

Theobald is the 7,580th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,224 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 70,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,224
Rank: 7,580th
How common: 1 in 70,800
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Old French Theobald, Tibaut; both ultimately derived from Proto-West Germanic *Þeudubalþ. Common in the Middle Ages under various spellings in the archaic pronunciation. After it became obsolete a spelling pronunciation took over. Compare Old English Þēodbald.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Theobald

Nicolas Théobald (1903–1981)French paleontologist

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

Surnames like Theobald

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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.