Thiel

At the 2020 census, 9,453 Americans bore the surname Thiel — 3,659th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 31,600.

By the numbers

People: 9,453
Rank: 3,659th
How common: 1 in 31,600
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

As a North German and Dutch surname, from a pet form of Dietrich, Diederik.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Thiel

Peter Thiel (born 1967)German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
Walter Thiel (1910–1943)German rocket scientist
Andreas Thiel (born 1960)German handball player
Alvar Thiel (1893–1973)sailor

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

Surnames like Thiel

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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.