The Thorin surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 166 people carried this name — #107,134 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,666,700 people counted. That is up 1% from 164 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 496 people named Thorin.
15 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 45 départements, most often Charente.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
41 people named Thorin live in Switzerland.
They live in 2 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
642 people named Thorin is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Thorin,
with a public archive behind them.
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Ingeborg Thorin 1896–1979 · portrait photographer -
Girard Thorin d. 1596 · painter
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Charles Thorin d. 1635 · painter
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Christian Frederik Thorin 1801–1829 · architect
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Alexandre Thorin 1805–1873 · politician
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Johan Emanuel Thorin 1862–1930 · photographer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Thorin.
- Thomson 24,750 · U.S. census
- Thon 1,066 · 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
- Thorn 9,988 · U.S. census
- Thouin 171 · U.S. census
- Thouvenin 105 · U.S. census
- Thue 246 · U.S. census
- Thuet 161 · U.S. census
- Thull 671 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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