Thatcher
Thatcher was given to 194 boys in 2025, #1,111 among boys’ names; 4,967 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,900 Americans named Thatcher and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Thatcher by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Thatcher?
#1,111 among boys’ names, 2025
Thatcher fell from #901 in 2015 to #1,111 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.13 to 0.11 per 1,000.
297 babies in 2021, the peak
Thatcher peaked in 2021, when 297 boys were given it, #815 among boys’ names. The 194 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 194 | #1,111 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 214 | #1,041 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 220 | #1,002 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 235 | #966 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 297 | #815 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 271 | #845 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 288 | #798 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 274 | #819 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 260 | #851 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 274 | #831 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 242 | #901 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 254 | #869 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 200 | #992 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 181 | #1,056 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 166 | #1,115 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 161 | #1,156 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 123 | #1,389 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 112 | #1,476 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 140 | #1,262 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 162 | #1,088 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 92 | #1,543 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,067 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 49 | #2,226 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,084 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 41 | #2,420 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,519 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,573 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,844 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,246 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,995 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,674 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,309 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,996 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,443 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,726 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,353 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,098 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,165 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,860 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,425 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,711 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,227 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,662 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 15 | #3,016 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,234 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,310 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #3,057 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,129 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,984 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,223 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,177 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #5,028 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,587 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,337 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,681 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,909 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,928 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,375 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Thatcher a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Thatcher has been given almost only to boys: 12 girls in 58 years of records.
Girls and boys named Thatcher: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Thatcher, and how old are they?
4,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,967 Americans ever recorded as Thatcher. The median Thatcher alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 3,472 people named Thatcher (52 women and girls, 3,420 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,562 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 105 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 172 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,420 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,210 |
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 Thatcher born?
The states with the most babies named Thatcher are Tennessee, Ohio and Texas, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 14 | #548 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 11 | #795 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 10 | #1,742 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 10 | #593 | 1.8× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #861 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 9 | #982 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 9 | #825 | 0.6× |
| Utah | 8 | #556 | 2.3× |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #547 | 1.3× |
| Indiana | 7 | #833 | 0.9× |
Where Thatcher is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Thatcher is most over-represented in Utah: since 1965 it was given 2.3 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 Thatcher with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Thatcher
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 Thatcher and names like it
- Compare Thatcher and MaximilianoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sThatcher peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Thatcher since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Thatcher.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Thatcher alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.