Thor

At the 2020 census, 3,105 Americans bore the surname Thor — 9,927th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 96,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,105
Rank: 9,927th
How common: 1 in 96,300
Per 100,000: 1.0

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 66.1%
White, not Hispanic 28.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
Hispanic or Latino 1.9%
Black, not Hispanic 1.4%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Thor

Annika Thor (born 1950)author from Sweden
Cameron Thor (born 1960)American actor
JT Thor (born 2002)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Thor

Also a first name

Thor has been given to 4,857 American babies as a first name since 1904, peaking in 2015. 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.