Thury
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Old Norse Þórir / ODa Thorir / OSw Thure; first attested Thuri 1066 DB
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/θʊɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thury is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 208K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 290K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 208K (inferred from the name graph)
213 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
from Old Norse Þórir / ODa Thorir / OSw Thure; first attested Thuri 1066 DB
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thury 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 | — | 213 | 1 in 1.6M | 223 | Thury | 98 |
| BR Brazil | — | 162 | 1 in 1.3M | 162 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 647K | 11 | Thury | 78 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 750K | — | Thury | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Thury | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 29 | 1 in 290K | 29 | Thury | 10 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Thury | 1 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #859 | — | — | — | Thury | 1 |
213 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
- Louis-Pierre Thuryb. 1644French Christian missionary
- François Thuryb. 1806CHSwiss politician (1806-1872)
- Marc Thuryb. 1822CHbotanist (1822-1905)
- René Thuryb. 1860CHElectricity transmission pioneer (1860–1938)
- Etele Thuryb. 1861HU(1861–1917)
- Zoltán Thuryb. 1870HUHungarian writer and journalist (1870–1906)
- Elemér Thuryb. 1874HUactor (1874–1944)
- Lajos Thuryb. 1896HUHungarian journalist
- Zsuzsa Thuryb. 1901HUHungarian writer, journalist and publicist (1901–1989)
- Franz Thuryb. 1909ATAustrian politician (1909-1988)
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 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 223 | #89,231 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 220 | #80,216 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 213 | #87,335 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 162 | #43,605 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 29 | #28,044 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 9 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Thury mean, and where does it come from?
- from Old Norse Þórir / ODa Thorir / OSw Thure; first attested Thuri 1066 DB Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Thury?
- A machine transcription gives /θʊɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Thury have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 213 people named Thury, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thury.
- How common is the name Thury?
- In the United States, the national register counted 213 people named Thury in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
- How common is Thury compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Thury is the 859th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thuryThe 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, “Thury” — the 859th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.