Thurman

22,239 people in the United States were counted with the surname Thurman in the 2020 census, making it the 1,575th most common in the country. That is about one person in 13,400.

By the numbers

People: 22,239
Rank: 1,575th
How common: 1 in 13,400
Per 100,000: 7.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old Norse

From an Old Norse personal name, formed by Þórr (“Thor”) + mundr (“protection”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.0%
Black, not Hispanic 22.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Thurman

Uma Thurman (born 1970)American actress and model
Robert Thurman (1941–2026)American Buddhist writer and academic
Allen G. Thurman (1813–1895)American politician and lawyer
Keith Thurman (born 1988)American boxer
Mary Thurman (1895–1925)American actress
Wallace Thurman (1902–1934)American novelist active during the Harlem Renaissance

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

Surnames like Thurman

Also a first name

Thurman has been given to 16,397 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1920. 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.