Thern
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ðən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thern is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 217Kas เทิน(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- NLNetherlands1 in 53Kas Theun
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Thern itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
325 named Theun
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled เท็น in TH Thailand, Thenu in NL Netherlands and Theun in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thern counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 325as Theun | 1 in 53K | 325 | Thenu | 3 |
| TH Thailand | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 217K | #891,743 | เท็น | 31 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | 166 | Theun | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | — | 33 | — | — |
325 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018), counting the spelling theun. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Carl Thernb. 1817HU(1817–1886) composer, conductor
- Ladislav Thernb. 1912SKSlovak mathematician and physicist (1912-??)
- Jonas Thernb. 1967SESwedish association football player
- Simon Thernb. 1992SESwedish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 166 | #100,663 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 130 | #134,631 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 119 | #140,157 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Thern?
- A machine transcription gives /ðən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Thern have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 325 people named Theun, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Thern most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thern is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Thern?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Thern in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Thern?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thernThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Thern”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.