Thinh — boys' name
227 babies named Thinh in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 1986. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
31% of everyone ever named Thinh was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Thinh in 1986 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Thinh
The Social Security Administration has registered 227 babies named Thinh between 1978 and 2017, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Thinh currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 13 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Thinh performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 71 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Thinh shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Thinh in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Thinh 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 227 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.
Thinh at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Thinh popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1978
- Peak year (1986)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 40 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
227 total births across 40 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1986 with 13 births in a single year.
Thinh by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 71 births that decade — 31% of Thinh's all-time total
Thinh decade highlights
- Peak decade 71 births
- Runner-up 66 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Thinh's strongest decade
71 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
Thinh by state
Where Thinh concentrates geographically — total births since 1978
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 16 | 7.0% |
16 of 227 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 7.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 7.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1978–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.