Thurow
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a place name in -ow; bearers in Poland: 26
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈθʊɹoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thurow is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Toponymic surname from a place name in -ow; bearers in Poland: 26.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thurow counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 1.1K | — |
| US United States | — | 776 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 19 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 8 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 4 | — |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Franz Thurowb. 1867DEGerman politician (1867-1958)
- Lester C. Thurowb. 1938USAmerican journalist and MIT professor of management and economics (1938-2016)
- Renate Thurowb. 1950DEGerman badminton player
- Kerstin Thurowb. 1969DEGerman engineer
- Alexandra Thurowb. 1975DEGerman 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 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #8,759 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 776 | #31,903 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 761 | #29,296 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 754 | #30,863 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 19 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 19 | #93,926 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #113,125 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 8 | #167,220 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Thurow mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from a place name in -ow; bearers in Poland: 26. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Thurow?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈθʊɹoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Thurow have the most bearers?
- Thurow is most frequently recorded in Brazil.
What do you want to know about Thurow?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thurowThe 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, “Thurow”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.