Thurgood
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ON Þórgautr / ODa / OSw Thorgot, 'Thor-Geat'; first attested Hunfridus filius Turgoti 1183 P (St)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈθɝɡʊd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thurgood is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from ON Þórgautr / ODa / OSw Thorgot, 'Thor-Geat'; first attested Hunfridus filius Turgoti 1183 P (St)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Thurgood 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, A surname transferred from the given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A different form of Thorogood.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)
- Rose Thurgoodb. 1602Religious writer of the 17th century
- Albert Thurgoodb. 1874AUAustralian rules footballer (1874–1927)
- Jimmy Thurgoodb. 1876AUAustralian rules footballer
- Stuart Thurgoodb. 1981GBEnglish association football player
- Josh Thurgoodb. 1985Australian rules footballer
- Madison Thurgoodb. 1998CACanadian fencer
- L. Neil ThurgoodAmerican Air Force officer
- Peter ThurgoodAUresearcher
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.6K | #4,414 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 994 | #25,932 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 959 | #25,701 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 801 | #28,142 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #293,898 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #78,206 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Thurgood mean, and where does it come from?
- from ON Þórgautr / ODa / OSw Thorgot, 'Thor-Geat'; first attested Hunfridus filius Turgoti 1183 P (St) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Thurgood?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈθɝɡʊd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Thurgood have the most bearers?
- Thurgood is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Thurgood?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thurgoodThe 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, “Thurgood”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.