The Thurmond surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,922 people carried this name — #5,841 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 49,800 people counted. That is up 3% from 5,752 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Thurmond surname

Variant of Thurman.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Thurmond» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

As an English and Welsh surname

Bardsley classes it as a baptismal name, from a given name: ‘the son of Thormond’.

An early record he cites: Henry Thurmond, Oxfordshire, 1273 — Hundred Rolls.

His entry covers Thorman, Thurman, Thormund and Thurmond.

From Charles W. Bardsley, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, with Special American Instances (London: Henry Frowde, 1901), p. 746 · public domain.

In the first U.S. census, 1790

30 families named Thurmond, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.

Each family is counted by its head. About 187 people lived in those households, 6.2 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 5 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.

Families, by state

Virginia 18
South Carolina 6
New York 4
Massachusetts 1
North Carolina 1

U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 265 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Thurmond in American newspapers,
1890–1919.

Newspaper page from The Enterprise carrying the name Thurmond
The Enterprise 1890-09-13
Newspaper page from St. Johns Review carrying the name Thurmond
St. Johns Review 1912-06-28
Newspaper page from Deming Graphic carrying the name Thurmond
Deming Graphic 1919-04-29

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 29,890 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Thurmond in Australian newspapers,
1860s–1950s.

104 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Thurmond. The most, 64, date from the 1940s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Queensland, at 1.6 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Queensland 30
New South Wales 29
Victoria 23
Western Australia 8
ACT (Canberra) 6
South Australia 4
Tasmania 4

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Thurmond.

Who carried it

People named Thurmond,
with a public archive behind them.

  • John William Thurmond
    John William Thurmond 1862–1934 · lawyer
  • Strom Thurmond
    Strom Thurmond 1902–2003 · judge
  • Nate Thurmond
    Nate Thurmond 1941–2016 · restaurateur
  • William Dabney Thurmond 1820–1910
  • John T. Thurmond 1941–2006 · paleontologist

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Thurmond,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States282 records

282 records of the Thurmond name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 193
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 74
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 6
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 4
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  • Irish Famine arrivals at New York, 1846–1851 1
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Clarence E. Thurmond

    Born 1914 in Georgia. Enlisted 1944 at Fort McPherson Atlanta; farm hand from Rabun County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1998, buried at Wesley Memorial Cemetery, Rabun Gap, Georgia.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Ralph R. Thurmond

    Born 1931; from Dyer County, Tennessee. U.S. Army, light weapons infantryman; killed in action 1950 in North Korea.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Matt Thurmond

    Arrived at New York in 1849 aboard the Great Britain from Limerick, aged 20; laborer. From Ireland.

    U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain)

Showing 3 of 282 records for Thurmond in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

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