Thorin
Thorin was given to 134 boys in 2025, #1,379 among boys’ names; 2,301 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,270 Americans named Thorin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Thorin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Thorin?
#1,379 among boys’ names, 2025
Thorin fell from #1,189 in 2015 to #1,379 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 81.4 to 78.5 per million.
167 babies in 2023, the peak
Thorin peaked in 2023, when 167 boys were given it, #1,200 among boys’ names. The 134 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 134 | #1,379 | 78.5 |
| 2024 | 139 | #1,363 | 80.7 |
| 2023 | 167 | #1,200 | 97.6 |
| 2022 | 155 | #1,262 | 88.8 |
| 2021 | 131 | #1,406 | 74.9 |
| 2020 | 134 | #1,340 | 77.6 |
| 2019 | 124 | #1,419 | 69.1 |
| 2018 | 139 | #1,315 | 76.5 |
| 2017 | 150 | #1,229 | 81.0 |
| 2016 | 136 | #1,324 | 71.7 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 156 | #1,189 | 81.4 |
| 2014 | 114 | #1,444 | 59.3 |
| 2013 | 74 | #1,911 | 39.1 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,439 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 28 | #3,778 | 14.7 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,527 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,289 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,247 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,231 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,497 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,311 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,984 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,786 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,305 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,273 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,869 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,316 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,175 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,717 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,657 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,415 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,911 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,421 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,631 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,453 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,952 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,244 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,743 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 7 | #6,024 | 3.7 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,377 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,918 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,863 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,954 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,181 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,808 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #5,003 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,549 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,881 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,587 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,429 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,945 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,340 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,368 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,684 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Thorin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Thorin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Thorin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Thorin, and how old are they?
2,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,301 Americans ever recorded as Thorin. The median Thorin alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,308 people named Thorin (22 women and girls, 1,286 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,454 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 66 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 154 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 307 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,740 |
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 Thorin born?
The states with the most babies named Thorin are Washington, Michigan and Texas, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 9 | #728 | 1.8× |
| Michigan | 8 | #893 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,262 | 0.5× |
| California | 6 | #2,441 | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 6 | #934 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,026 | 0.6× |
| Utah | 6 | #693 | 0.7× |
| Idaho | 6 | #433 | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #921 | 1.6× |
| Colorado | 5 | #946 | 1.0× |
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 Thorin 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,047 babies since 1880, Thorin is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 134 of their 194 babies (69%), 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 Thorin
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 Thorin and names like it
- Compare Thorin and ThorenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sThorin peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Thorin since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Thorin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Thorin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.