Thom

5,158 people in the United States were counted with the surname Thom in the 2020 census, making it the 6,338th most common in the country. That is about one person in 57,900.

By the numbers

People: 5,158
Rank: 6,338th
How common: 1 in 57,900
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.2%
Black, not Hispanic 9.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.5%

Notable people called Thom

René Thom (1923–2002)French mathematician
Andreas Thom (born 1965)German association football player and manager
Sandi Thom (born 1981)Scottish singer
Linda Thom (born 1943)Canadian sport shooter

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

Surnames like Thom

Also a first name

Thom has been given to 844 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 1961. 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.