The Thune surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 531 people carried this name — #41,038 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 555,600 people counted. That is up 2% from 523 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 101 people named Thune.
Those born in France came from 6 départements, most often Seine-Maritime.
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
829 people named Thune are counted in Norway and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers.
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) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Thune in American newspapers,
1899–1950.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 13,887 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Thune,
with a public archive behind them.
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Nils Trondsen Thune 1835–1879 · politician -
Andreas Lauritz Thune 1848–1920 · businessperson -
Harald Thune 1952– · politician -
Turid Jorunn Thune 1956– · physician -
John Thune 1961– · businessperson -
Erasmus Georg Fog Thune 1785–1829 · astronomer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 32 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Thune.
When the index is not enough
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