Thy — girls' name

What the Data Says About Thy

The Social Security Administration has registered 366 babies named Thy between 1979 and 2018, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Thy currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 18 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Thy performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 106 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Thy shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 69 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Thy in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Thy 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 366 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.