Thelonious — #5704 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Thelonious

The Social Security Administration has registered 455 babies named Thelonious between 1960 and 2024, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Thelonious currently holds the #5704 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 23 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Thelonious performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 170 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Thelonious shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 27 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Thelonious in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Thelonious in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 455 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.