Thai
Thai was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,842 among boys’ names; 1,426 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,380 Americans named Thai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 19 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Thai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Thai?
#11,842 among boys’ names, 2025
Thai fell from #5,717 in 2015 to #11,842 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 3.5 per million.
52 babies in 2004, the peak
Thai peaked in 2004, when 52 babies were given it (42 boys, #2,591 among boys’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 6 | #11,842 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 7 | #10,806 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 7 | #10,688 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,527 | 11 | #7,707 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 10 | #8,095 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 9 | #8,653 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,739 | 10 | #8,141 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,904 | 12 | #7,083 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,986 | 9 | #8,760 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 13 | #6,680 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #16,251 | 16 | #5,717 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,433 | 12 | #7,003 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,050 | 17 | #5,371 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,288 | 13 | #6,594 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,055 | 22 | #4,491 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 22 | #4,508 | |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,110 | 30 | #3,626 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,257 | 32 | #3,476 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,496 | 36 | #3,183 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,344 | 31 | #3,443 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,851 | 42 | #2,643 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,621 | 42 | #2,591 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,249 | 42 | #2,498 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,178 | 35 | #2,745 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,962 | 34 | #2,783 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 42 | #2,321 | |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,410 | 35 | #2,549 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,215 | 26 | #3,079 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,737 | 31 | #2,603 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,374 | 32 | #2,472 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 36 | #2,244 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 35 | #2,297 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 36 | #2,201 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,406 | 28 | #2,588 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 29 | #2,455 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 23 | #2,853 | |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,374 | 22 | #2,882 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 31 | #2,078 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 27 | #2,205 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 38 | #1,690 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 25 | #2,217 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 22 | #2,357 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 40 | #1,531 | |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,509 | 28 | #1,989 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,365 | 28 | #1,987 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,361 | 13 | #3,412 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 20 | #2,457 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 16 | #2,785 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 15 | #2,896 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 10 | #3,694 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,398 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Thai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,426 Americans recorded as Thai, 15% are girls and 85% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Thai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Thai, and how old are they?
1,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,426 Americans ever recorded as Thai. The median Thai alive today is 27 years old; half are between 19 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 5,623 people named Thai (881 women and girls, 4,742 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,343 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 82 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 493 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 630 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 178 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Thai born?
The states with the most babies named Thai are California, Texas and Georgia, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 254 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Thai is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Thai is most over-represented in California: since 1975 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Thai with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,483 babies since 1880, Thai is the most given (96% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Thai
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Thai and names like it
- Compare Thai and ThaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sThai peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Thai since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Thai.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Thai alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.