Thursday Surname
Approximately 1,367 people bear this surname
Thursday Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 934 | 1:189,660 | 11,509 |
| Uganda | 395 | 1:98,834 | 9,973 |
| Iran | 27 | 1:2,843,797 | 88,363 |
| Northern Ireland | 9 | 1:205,004 | 9,958 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
Thursday (1,403) may also be a first name.
Thursday Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Thursday Come From? nationality or country of origin
Thursday has its highest incidence in Nigeria. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Thursday? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 282,110th most numerous family name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 5,331,050 people. The last name Thursday occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Thursday live; 68 percent live in West Africa and 68 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 208,697th most frequently used first name throughout the world. It is borne by 1,403 people.
This surname is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is held by 934 people, or 1 in 189,660. In Nigeria Thursday is most numerous in: Bayelsa, where 46 percent live, Rivers, where 25 percent live and Akwa Ibom, where 10 percent live. Outside of Nigeria this surname exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 29 percent live and Iran, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursdway | 94 | 1 | / |
| Dthursday | 94 | 1 | / |
| Tursday | 93 | 12 | / |
| Thursdy | 93 | 6 | / |
| Thursda | 93 | 0 | / |
| Thrusday | 88 | 1 | / |
| Thurzday | 88 | 1 | / |
| Thurstay | 88 | 0 | / |
| Thursty | 80 | 4 | / |
| Thursat | 80 | 1 | / |
| Thursta | 80 | 0 | / |
| Thurst | 71 | 28 | / |
| Thrsty | 71 | 1 | / |
| Thurswood | 71 | 0 | / |
| Thirsty | 67 | 572 | / |
| Thuorst | 67 | 17 | / |
| Thristy | 67 | 9 | / |
| Thursto | 67 | 1 | / |
| Thorsad | 67 | 1 | / |
| Throsty | 67 | 0 | / |
| Thirsta | 67 | 0 | / |
| Thorsta | 67 | 0 | / |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Thursday
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis