Theron

Where Theron comes from

Theron hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1910
    Peak, #447
    38 babies named Theron — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1964
    Theron Read born
    American actor
  4. 1980
    Theron Smith born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Theron Smith · American basketball player, born 1980
  • Theron Read · American actor, 1964–2009
  • Theron Cooper · Bahamian sprinter, born 1974
  • Theron Moses Rice · American politician, 1829–1895
  • Theron C. Bennett · American musician, 1879–1937

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.