Thorogood
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From the medieval personal name Thurgod, from Old Norse Thorgautr; Thorr was the Norse god of thunder, and Gautr was a Germanic tribe name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/t̪əɹoɡʊd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thorogood is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 978K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
- SESweden1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 978K (inferred from the name graph)
286 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
From the medieval personal name Thurgod, from Old Norse Thorgautr; Thorr was the Norse god of thunder, and Gautr was a Germanic tribe name.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thorogood 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 286 | 1 in 1.2M | 286 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 21 | 1 in 2.4M | 21 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 9 | 1 in 4.3M | 7 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 5 | 1 in 2M | 5 | — | — |
286 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Thorogood is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, possibly from Middle English þurhūt gōd ‘thorough-good’; first attested Stephen Thorghugod 1301 ELPN
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Thurgod (ON Porgautr, composed of the divine name Porr (see Thor 2) + the ethnic name Gautr; see Jocelyn). The derivation from ME thur(og)h completely (OE pur(u)h) + gode good (OE god), supported by Ekwall among others, is Thorstensson see Thurston Thouvenel see Stephen Thowless see Thewlis Thoytes see Thwaite
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rebecca Strongb. 1843GBnot in their usual nameBritish nurse
- Ian Thorogoodb. 1936AUAustralian rules footballer and coach (1936-2019)
- George Thorogoodb. 1950USAmerican blues rock vocalist/guitarist (born 1950)
- Tim Thorogoodb. 1962GBBritish diplomat (born 1962)
- Nicki Thorogoodb. 1964GBhealth sociologist
- Robert Thorogoodb. 1972GBBritish screenwriter
- Martina Thorogoodb. 1975VEVenezuelan pageant titleholder (born 1975)
- Chris ThorogoodGBbotanist
- Margaret ThorogoodGBstatistician and epidemiologist
- Adrian ThorogoodCAlegal scholar
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 286 | #68,770 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 261 | #78,873 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 254 | #71,610 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21 | #83,437 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21 | #80,648 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #171,034 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #57,280 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #53,995 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #394,953 |
| 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
- What does the name Thorogood mean, and where does it come from?
- From the medieval personal name Thurgod, from Old Norse Thorgautr; Thorr was the Norse god of thunder, and Gautr was a Germanic tribe name. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Thorogood?
- A machine transcription gives /t̪əɹoɡʊd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Thorogood have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 286 people named Thorogood, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Thorogood most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thorogood is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 978 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Thorogood?
- In the United States, the national register counted 286 people named Thorogood in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thorogoodThe 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, “Thorogood”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.