Thayne
Thayne was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,607 among boys’ names; 1,450 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Thayne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 16 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Thayne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Thayne?
#9,607 among boys’ names, 2025
Thayne fell from #4,684 in 2015 to #9,607 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 4.7 per million.
30 babies in 2016, the peak
Thayne peaked in 2016, when 30 boys were given it, #3,670 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,607 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,785 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,676 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,734 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 10 | #8,097 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 19 | #5,015 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,095 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,898 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,088 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,670 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,684 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 29 | #3,681 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,165 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,878 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,172 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,999 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,288 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 26 | #4,024 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,354 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 26 | #3,876 | 12.7 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,928 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,619 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 26 | #3,513 | 13.2 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,774 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,495 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,744 | 11.2 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,685 | 10.9 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,388 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,577 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,534 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,349 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 12 | #5,079 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 27 | #2,679 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,896 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,207 | 9.9 |
| 1990 | 21 | #3,043 | 10.2 |
| 1989 | 18 | #3,312 | 9.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,418 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #6,019 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,426 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,374 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,091 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,214 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,267 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,196 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,944 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,766 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,589 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,131 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,457 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,751 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,808 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,453 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,805 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 24 | #1,857 | 13.6 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,613 | 7.5 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,407 | 7.8 |
| 1968 | 17 | #2,025 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 18 | #1,897 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,885 | 10.1 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,067 | 8.6 |
| 1964 | 16 | #2,106 | 8.0 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,192 | 7.4 |
| 1962 | 27 | #1,540 | 13.1 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,881 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,413 | 6.1 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,583 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,252 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 9 | #3,002 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,947 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 13 | #2,295 | 6.3 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,786 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,516 | 5.6 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,854 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,333 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,145 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,783 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,296 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,212 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,898 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,973 | 5.2 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,693 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,465 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,845 | 6.9 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,452 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,986 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,465 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,438 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,606 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,100 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,336 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,719 | 5.8 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,521 | 6.5 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,744 | 6.2 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,887 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,709 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,805 | 9.7 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,193 | 5.5 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,503 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,480 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,470 | 7.5 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,521 | 11.8 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,930 | 9.7 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,153 | 9.0 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,360 | 8.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Thayne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Thayne has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 105 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Thayne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Thayne, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 81% of the 1,450 Americans ever recorded as Thayne. The median Thayne alive today is 29 years old; half are between 16 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 1,102 people named Thayne (32 women and girls, 1,070 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,149 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 18 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 138 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 194 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 230 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 236 |
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 Thayne born?
The states with the most babies named Thayne are Utah, Idaho and Nebraska, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah and Idaho and Nebraska are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 122 | not ranked | 7.8× |
| Idaho | 5 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Nebraska | 5 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Thayne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Thayne is most over-represented in Utah: since 1915 it was given 7.8 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 Thayne 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,236 babies since 1880, Thayne is the second most given (34% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 42 babies (19%), again the second most given.
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 Thayne
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 Thayne and names like it
- Compare Thayne and ThaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sThayne peaked in 2016.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Thayne since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Thayne.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Thayne alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.