Thyra
Thyra was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,834 among girls’ names; 1,320 Americans have been recorded with it since 1896 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Thyra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Thyra mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Thyra is “a female given name, a less common spelling of Tyra” Its etymology gives the sense “Thor” (Þórr).
A Latinized form of Old Danish Thyrvi, from Old Norse Þórr (“Thor”) and a second element of debated meaning.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Thyra?
#11,834 among girls’ names, 2025
Thyra entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #11,834 in 2025.
30 babies in 1918, the peak
Thyra peaked in 1918, when 30 girls were given it, #1,445 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,834 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,389 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,596 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 12 | #9,007 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,451 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,483 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,686 | 4.2 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,214 | 2.9 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,225 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,389 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 10 | #9,217 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,688 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,576 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,257 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,182 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,249 | 3.3 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,802 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,076 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,934 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,416 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #8,078 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 7 | #9,022 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,149 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,347 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,550 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,774 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,435 | 6.2 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,547 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,540 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,516 | 7.8 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,418 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,604 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,639 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,759 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,765 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,612 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,624 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,240 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,267 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,894 | 9.4 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,246 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,729 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #6,026 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,145 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,361 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 15 | #3,007 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,357 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,402 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,351 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,330 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,401 | 10.5 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,948 | 14.7 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,625 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,586 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,443 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,499 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,342 | 11.5 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,798 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,691 | 19.0 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,892 | 16.6 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,873 | 17.3 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,914 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,440 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,508 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,557 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,277 | 13.4 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,175 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,867 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,798 | 18.8 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,096 | 15.1 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,572 | 11.6 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,371 | 13.0 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,819 | 19.3 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,149 | 15.2 |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,272 | 14.0 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,302 | 13.6 |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,777 | 19.9 |
| 1922 | 20 | #2,022 | 16.7 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,368 | 13.0 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,623 | 22.5 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,850 | 18.6 |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,445 | 25.9 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,468 | 25.0 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,480 | 24.9 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,436 | 26.4 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,730 | 21.0 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,757 | 20.8 |
| 1912 | 23 | #1,112 | 41.2 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,537 | 26.3 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,331 | 32.8 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,462 | 28.8 |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,130 | 41.9 |
| 1907 | 18 | #921 | 56.5 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,314 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 19 | #868 | 65.2 |
| 1904 | 22 | #771 | 79.9 |
| 1903 | 17 | #859 | 64.9 |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,125 | 41.7 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,453 | 29.2 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,680 | 23.2 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,531 | 25.6 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,800 | 21.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Thyra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Thyra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 102 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Thyra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Thyra, and how old are they?
An estimated 555 Americans named Thyra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (42% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 42 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 592 people named Thyra (586 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 575 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,781 babies since 1880, Thyra is the most given (74% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 69 babies (12%), the third most given that year.
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 Thyra
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 Thyra and names like it
- Compare Thyra and ThyriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sThyra peaked in 1918.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Thyra since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Thyra: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Thyra.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Thyra alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.