Thurston

Thurston is the 2,439th most common surname in the United States, shared by 14,482 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 20,600.

By the numbers

People: 14,482
Rank: 2,439th
How common: 1 in 20,600
Per 100,000: 4.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.8%
Black, not Hispanic 9.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Thurston

William Thurston (1946–2012)American mathematician
Lorrin A. Thurston (1858–1931)Hawaiian politician

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

Surnames like Thurston

Also a first name

Thurston has been given to 3,501 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 1918. 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.