Thorpe Surname

7,364th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 77,134 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

Thorpe Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'at the thorp,' i.e. the village, (a) Local, 'of Thorpe.' Many parishes, hamlets, &c, are so named in England.

Adam de la Throppe, Wiltshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Augustinus de Thorpe, Somerset, ibid.

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Thorpe Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States28,9831:12,5061,553
England23,3631:2,385305
Australia7,3311:3,682527
Sierra Leone5,8381:1,214227
Canada2,8551:12,9061,909
Jamaica1,9911:1,441243
New Zealand1,2981:3,489538
South Africa1,2301:44,0475,618
Wales5501:5,626627
Scotland5001:10,7081,466
Ireland4291:10,9771,399
Barbados3471:828205
Nigeria2431:728,98333,324
France2191:303,30046,302
India2131:3,601,246101,367
Brazil1561:1,372,27146,465
Trinidad and Tobago1471:9,2791,309
Costa Rica1401:34,143948
Liberia1371:32,1793,038
Spain1061:441,05723,230
Thailand1061:666,399111,628
Panama751:52,1632,511
Northern Ireland701:26,3582,890
Japan681:1,880,06327,024
Isle of Man581:1,480257
Germany561:1,437,59788,094
Singapore431:128,0865,748
United Arab Emirates401:229,05715,464
Austria351:243,29828,936
Norway351:146,92218,432
Jersey321:3,100566
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines271:4,173555
Israel251:342,30528,607
Netherlands251:675,48754,943
Zimbabwe241:643,26047,966
Dominican Republic231:453,60614,824
Hungary231:426,79528,704
Senegal201:728,9672,654
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha171:34467
Qatar121:196,50026,891
Belgium111:1,045,14978,166
Malaysia111:2,681,293102,971
Switzerland111:746,62949,719
Bermuda101:6,5281,005
Denmark101:564,47234,222
United States Virgin Islands101:11,0381,555
Sweden91:1,094,08481,336
China81:170,915,1968,932
Ecuador71:2,272,26423,377
Hong Kong71:1,047,9264,985
Italy71:8,736,670118,213
Venezuela71:4,314,86839,591
Cayman Islands61:10,6491,253
Guyana61:127,0377,965
Belize51:71,0952,977
Cyprus51:176,9758,389
Grenada51:21,7071,054
Czechia41:2,658,367127,801
Fiji41:223,5982,635
Indonesia41:33,062,298643,618
Poland41:9,502,187181,606
Portugal41:2,604,56016,079
Saint Lucia41:44,6952,207
Saudi Arabia41:7,713,95437,548
Swaziland41:324,550996
Cambodia31:5,162,38210,688
Finland31:1,832,23457,803
Gambia31:641,150991
Ghana31:9,006,89723,626
Greece31:3,693,263126,191
Mexico31:41,375,40271,397
Argentina21:21,371,707253,176
Cuba21:5,761,35813,825
Latvia21:1,025,02341,546
Mozambique21:13,630,7847,358
Nepal21:14,240,47817,812
Oman21:1,843,9869,590
Pakistan21:89,321,942157,560
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
South Korea21:25,620,1284,175
Turks and Caicos Islands21:17,164627
Vietnam21:46,323,0275,235
Afghanistan11:32,153,18360,828
Albania11:2,914,05529,474
Antigua and Barbuda11:99,1712,137
Azerbaijan11:9,649,12247,873
Bahamas11:391,7512,737
Bahrain11:1,348,60810,432
Bangladesh11:159,356,77326,077
Brunei11:418,7313,893
Bulgaria11:6,978,90586,260
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
Cook Islands11:18,1791,485
El Salvador11:6,343,8888,415
Estonia11:1,321,80440,178
Guatemala11:16,082,66812,169
Guernsey11:64,4392,137
Jordan11:8,842,43726,010
Kenya11:46,179,900103,372
Lesotho11:2,032,55823,402
Lithuania11:3,034,58847,401
Luxembourg11:580,54215,155
North Macedonia11:2,101,47231,546
Monaco11:37,0664,748
Namibia11:2,409,40119,676
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Puerto Rico11:3,550,1399,109
Saint Kitts and Nevis11:55,1991,294
Slovakia11:5,336,450140,422
Sri Lanka11:20,808,56018,521
Sudan11:37,510,19514,259
Suriname11:552,6169,664
Tanzania11:52,941,613123,716
Turkey11:77,821,422191,047
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887
Ukraine11:45,522,696503,646
Uruguay11:3,431,75838,295
Uzbekistan11:30,929,14267,786
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland3741:11,8451,623
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England11,7491:2,075302
Scotland721:51,9893,520
Wales351:44,8122,341
Guernsey81:4,082713
Jersey11:51,8823,898
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Thorpe (418) may also be a first name.

Thorpe Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'at the thorp,' i.e. the village, (a) Local, 'of Thorpe.' Many parishes, hamlets, &c, are so named in England.

Adam de la Throppe, Wiltshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Augustinus de Thorpe, Somerset, ibid.

Warin de Thorpe, Cambridgeshire, ibid.

1728. Married — Henry Chamner and Barbara Thorp: St. George, Hanover Square.

1729. — William Thorpe and Frances Fox: ibid.

1745. — John Throp and Mary Lunt: ibid.

1770. — John Throop and Mary Burgin: ibid.

1778. — Joseph Thrupp and Mary Burgon: ibid.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(English and Scandinavian) belonging to Thorp, Thorpe = the Farmstead, Hamlet, Village [Old English and Old Norse porp] Warin de Thorpe.—Hundred Rolls The cok, that orloge [clock] is of thorpes lyte [little].—Chaucer, Parlement of Foules, 350.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

Village. Place name in England. Compare “Dorp” in Afrikaans.

South African Surnames (1965) by Eric Rosenthal

(English) One who came from Thorpe (farm), the name of many places in England; dweller at a farmstead.

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

A village. Dutch, Dorp.

An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857) by William Arthur

1. Wido Angevin or of Anjou, of Massingham, Norfolk, was ancestor of the Thorpes of Thorpe Ashwell, Norfolk (Blomefield, Norfolk, ix. 14). 2. Torp, in Normandy, derived its name from Denmark or Sweden in 912. Rodbert de Torp witnessed the charter of St. Evroult c. 1050 (Ord. Vit. 465). Another Robert de T. was living c. 1080 (Gall. Christ. xi. 227), His descendants in 1165 held estates in Lincoln, York, and Norfolk (Lib. Niger). William de T., who was of Lincoln, held Torpe, and a fief of the Honour of Grentmesnil, in Normandy (Feod. Norm. Duchesne).

The Norman People (1874)

A frequent location name in Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, etc.

British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber

Thorpe: (Anglo-Saxon; D. torp; G. dorf), a hamlet: Sibthorpe is Sigbert’s village; Langthorpe, Kettlethorpe. Thorpe is a common surname in the Danish districts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. In “The Clerke’s Tale” we are told: “Naught far fro thir palace honourable, There stood a thorpe of sight delitable, In which the poor folk of the village Hadden their bestes and their harborage.”

Hence the surnames Thrupp, Winthrop or Winterthorp, Gawthorp, Calthrop, etc. Kirkup stands for Kirkthorp.

Family Names And Their Story (1913) by Sabine Baring-Gould

Thorpe Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Thorpe Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Thorpe (Marathi: थोरपे) occurs in The United States more than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Thorpe? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 7,364th most commonly held surname at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 94,479 people. The last name Thorpe occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 42 percent of Thorpe reside; 38 percent reside in North America and 38 percent reside in Anglo-North America. It is also the 420,385th most frequently used first name worldwide, held by 418 people.

The last name Thorpe is most commonly held in The United States, where it is held by 28,983 people, or 1 in 12,506. In The United States Thorpe is most prevalent in: North Carolina, where 7 percent live, New York, where 7 percent live and Florida, where 6 percent live. Without taking into account The United States this last name exists in 118 countries. It is also common in England, where 30 percent live and Australia, where 10 percent live.

Thorpe Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Thorpe has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Thorpe surname grew 2,898,300 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it grew 199 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it grew 1,571 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it grew 694 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it grew 115 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Thorpe Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those carrying the Thorpe last name is primarily Catholic (46%) in Ireland.

In The United States those holding the Thorpe surname are 8.09% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 54.86% being registered to vote for the party.

The amount Thorpe earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 11.15% less than the national average, earning 307,490 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 50.99% more than the national average, earning R 358,800 per year; in United States they earn 1.29% less than the national average, earning $42,591 USD per year and in Canada they earn 5.73% more than the national average, earning $52,530 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Thorpes9280/
Thorpey928/
Thorpee922/
Thorppe921/
Thorphe921/
Thoorpe921/
Thorper921/
Thorrpe921/
Thorp9116,397/
Torpe91807/
D'Thorpe862/
Tharpe835,642/
Torpey833,817/
Torper83208/
Torpes83148/
Torpie83109/
Toerpe8398/
Torpea8385/
Thorps8370/
Tourpe8367/
Torpez8331/
Torpet8319/
Thorpy8318/
Torpee839/
Torpei836/
Thorph833/
Torppe832/
Thorpp832/
Therpe832/
Thorpf831/
Thorrp830/
Thorpi830/
Thoorp830/
Thorpt830/
Torp805,516/
Torppey7761/
Tharpes7726/
Torphey776/
Torpeer772/
Torpets771/
Tharrpe771/
Thorphy771/
Thorpis770/
Tharpeu770/
Tharp7318,740/
Torpy731,072/
Tarpe73685/
Terpe73272/
Torpi73149/
Torpa73101/
Thorb7351/
Torps7338/
Törpe7338/
Toorp736/
Torpp736/
Torpz730/
Tahrp730/
Torpt730/
Tarpeh676,719/
Tarpey672,702/
Torppa67457/
Terpea67229/
Torphy67207/
Tarphe67164/
Torpio67120/
Tarpee67117/
Thorbs6775/
Törper6758/
Tarper6742/
Torpis6740/
Tarpea6739/
Terpeh6728/
Torpoy6720/
Terppe6716/
Tarpet6715/
Torpiš678/
Torpai676/
Torpaa676/
Torppi674/
Taarpe674/
Tharpp674/
Torpay673/
Törppe673/
Torpås673/
Terphe672/
Tourpa672/
Toorpa671/
Tharpy671/
Tarpes671/
Torrpa671/
Torpiş671/
Torpoi671/
Terpey670/
Tourpy670/
Tarpez670/
Tharpt670/
Tarpie670/

Thorpe Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Thorpe in the Marathi language
थोरपेthorape87.94
थोरवेthorave9.22
थोपthopa2.13
भोरपेbhorape0.71

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