Theron
Theron was given to 55 boys in 2025, #2,474 among boys’ names; 13,000 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,990 Americans named Theron and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (62% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 24 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Theron by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Theron?
#2,474 among boys’ names, 2025
Theron fell from #1,612 in 2015 to #2,474 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 52.2 to 32.2 per million.
180 babies in 1966, the peak
Theron peaked in 1966, when 180 boys were given it, #566 among boys’ names. The 55 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #2,474 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 45 | #2,866 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 42 | #2,998 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 48 | #2,747 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,434 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 69 | #2,065 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,147 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 77 | #1,935 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 89 | #1,745 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 81 | #1,859 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (143)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 100 | #1,612 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 99 | #1,595 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 86 | #1,722 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 101 | #1,574 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 87 | #1,715 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 96 | #1,636 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 97 | #1,635 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 96 | #1,631 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 105 | #1,514 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 134 | #1,254 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,341 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 112 | #1,323 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 97 | #1,389 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 101 | #1,321 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 98 | #1,332 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 108 | #1,237 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 90 | #1,337 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 101 | #1,219 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 92 | #1,258 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 99 | #1,174 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 106 | #1,103 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 113 | #1,048 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 101 | #1,124 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 119 | #993 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 100 | #1,087 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 109 | #1,016 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 116 | #947 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 115 | #894 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 107 | #912 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 102 | #910 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 94 | #944 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 96 | #898 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 123 | #789 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 101 | #892 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 111 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 118 | #813 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 134 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 130 | #746 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 148 | #700 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 126 | #743 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 147 | #681 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 160 | #638 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 172 | #604 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 158 | #628 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 153 | #671 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 152 | #666 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 159 | #627 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 162 | #597 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 163 | #592 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 180 | #566 | 0.10 |
| 1965 | 96 | #754 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 137 | #663 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 125 | #693 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 147 | #641 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 143 | #657 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 171 | #603 | 0.08 |
| 1959 | 87 | #822 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 97 | #753 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 109 | #717 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 87 | #802 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 77 | #842 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 89 | #756 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 100 | #715 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 88 | #753 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 91 | #730 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 97 | #699 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 104 | #674 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 97 | #681 | 0.06 |
| 1947 | 103 | #683 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 108 | #620 | 0.07 |
| 1945 | 113 | #570 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 103 | #611 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 113 | #596 | 0.08 |
| 1942 | 121 | #560 | 0.09 |
| 1941 | 117 | #556 | 0.10 |
| 1940 | 91 | #625 | 0.08 |
| 1939 | 111 | #546 | 0.10 |
| 1938 | 95 | #612 | 0.09 |
| 1937 | 93 | #604 | 0.09 |
| 1936 | 96 | #594 | 0.09 |
| 1935 | 85 | #646 | 0.08 |
| 1934 | 107 | #573 | 0.10 |
| 1933 | 95 | #599 | 0.10 |
| 1932 | 106 | #578 | 0.10 |
| 1931 | 118 | #538 | 0.11 |
| 1930 | 109 | #575 | 0.10 |
| 1929 | 95 | #629 | 0.09 |
| 1928 | 113 | #583 | 0.10 |
| 1927 | 94 | #658 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 118 | #571 | 0.11 |
| 1925 | 118 | #576 | 0.11 |
| 1924 | 153 | #505 | 0.14 |
| 1923 | 123 | #563 | 0.11 |
| 1922 | 144 | #516 | 0.13 |
| 1921 | 151 | #504 | 0.14 |
| 1920 | 146 | #501 | 0.14 |
| 1919 | 150 | #489 | 0.15 |
| 1918 | 138 | #511 | 0.14 |
| 1917 | 135 | #495 | 0.15 |
| 1916 | 118 | #527 | 0.13 |
| 1915 | 148 | #452 | 0.17 |
| 1914 | 113 | #452 | 0.17 |
| 1913 | 78 | #497 | 0.15 |
| 1912 | 76 | #455 | 0.18 |
| 1911 | 38 | #480 | 0.17 |
| 1910 | 38 | #452 | 0.20 |
| 1909 | 30 | #471 | 0.18 |
| 1908 | 26 | #498 | 0.17 |
| 1907 | 15 | #697 | 0.10 |
| 1906 | 22 | #487 | 0.17 |
| 1905 | 11 | #784 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 14 | #641 | 0.11 |
| 1903 | 19 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1902 | 12 | #681 | 0.10 |
| 1901 | 10 | #724 | 0.09 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,043 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 10 | #710 | 0.09 |
| 1898 | 16 | #538 | 0.13 |
| 1897 | 16 | #513 | 0.14 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,093 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 11 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 15 | #537 | 0.13 |
| 1893 | 8 | #828 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 8 | #856 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 6 | #950 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,148 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 11 | #623 | 0.10 |
| 1888 | 8 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1887 | 8 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 8 | #750 | 0.07 |
| 1883 | 11 | #591 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 10 | #648 | 0.09 |
| 1880 | 7 | #799 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Theron a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Theron has been given almost only to boys: 40 girls in 143 years of records.
Girls and boys named Theron: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Theron, and how old are they?
7,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 62% of the 13,000 Americans ever recorded as Theron. The median Theron alive today is 44 years old; half are between 24 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 7,539 people named Theron (136 women and girls, 7,403 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,306 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 370 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,380 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,080 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,630 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,620 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 914 |
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 Theron born?
The states with the most babies named Theron are Georgia, California and Texas, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 766 | #1,525 | 2.1× |
| California | 704 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 699 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| South Carolina | 436 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| New York | 409 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 397 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 378 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 365 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 227 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 225 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Theron is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Theron is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 2.1 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 Theron 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 13,771 babies since 1880, Theron is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 55 of their 60 babies (92%), again the 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 Theron
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 Theron and names like it
- Compare Theron and TheranBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTheron peaked in 1966.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Theron since 1910.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Theron.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Theron alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.