The Thon surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,066 people carried this name — #23,737 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 277,800 people counted. That is up 2% from 1,044 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 137 people named Thon.
5 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 27 départements, most often Drôme.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
566 people named Thon is counted in Norway.
Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers.
Counted, by country
Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Thon,
with a public archive behind them.
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Alexander Thon 1790–1858 · architect -
Rudolf Thon d. 2004
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Johann Carl Salomo Thon 1751–1830 · jurist
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Eleonore Thon 1753–1807 · writer
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Christian August Thon 1755–1829 · jurist
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Georg Philipp Friedrich Thon 1761–1834 · jurist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Thon.
- Thome 3,163 · U.S. census
- Thomen 264 · U.S. census
- Thommes 255 · U.S. census
- Thompson 664,644 · U.S. census
- Thomsen 7,654 · U.S. census
- Thomson 24,750 · U.S. census
- Thong 1,378 · U.S. census
- Thony 173 · U.S. census
- Thor 2,823 · U.S. census
- Thore 243 · U.S. census
- Thorin 166 · U.S. census
- Thorn 9,988 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Thon is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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