Thai
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306 · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to boys 85.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1983 · 40 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,214since 1975
Thai over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #10,695 | 6 | |
| 2024 | — | #9,894 | 7 | |
| 2023 | — | #9,763 | 7 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | — | #7,587 | 10 | |
| 2020 | — | #8,067 | 9 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | — | #6,349 | 13 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #5,507 | 16 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #6,306 | 13 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #4,356 | 22 |
| 2010 | — | #4,366 | 22 | |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #3,551 | 30 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #3,421 | 32 |
| 2007 | #9,007 | 13 | #3,135 | 36 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #3,384 | 31 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #2,614 | 42 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #2,569 | 42 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #2,470 | 42 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #2,685 | 35 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #2,742 | 34 |
| 2000 | — | #2,298 | 42 | |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #2,510 | 35 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #3,017 | 26 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #2,546 | 31 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #2,441 | 32 |
| 1995 | — | #2,210 | 36 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,259 | 35 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,162 | 36 | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #2,532 | 28 |
| 1991 | — | #2,406 | 29 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,780 | 23 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #2,784 | 22 |
| 1988 | — | #2,035 | 31 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,169 | 27 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,662 | 38 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,171 | 25 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,292 | 22 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,516 | 40 | |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | #1,929 | 28 |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | #1,942 | 28 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | #3,256 | 13 |
| 1979 | — | #2,379 | 20 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,669 | 16 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,791 | 15 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,471 | 10 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Thai! It came in at #4,797, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Thai is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#804 · 1 in 14,269
Best ever in a state: #782 in California, 1983.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #804 | 16 | 1 in 14,269 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Thai
- 801 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #10,695)
- 2,628 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #10,695)
- 5,188 spots since 2015 (#5,507 → #10,695)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1983 at #1,516 (40 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 29 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 44,814 boys born in 1983 were named Thai (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.1% of all boys named Thai (366) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 67 | #2,379 (1979) | #3,221 |
| 1980s | 274 | #1,516 (1983) | #2,176 |
| 1990s | 311 | #2,162 (1993) | #2,486 |
| 2000s | 366 | #2,298 (2000) | #2,887 |
| 2010s | 146 | #4,356 (2011) | #6,117 |
| 2020s | 50 | #7,262 (2022) | #8,878 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Thai in 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 48,461 of them was named Thai, which outranked 78.8% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,645Matias39
- #1,645Sameer39
- #1,645Santana39
- #1,662Thai38
- #1,662Armon38
- #1,662Auston38
- #1,662Barney38
- #1,694Brion37
- #1,694Darvin37
- #1,694Daryn37
Tied with 31 names at #1,662; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.