Thompson
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #2,332 for boys in 2025, 59 births
Given to boys 99.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1887 · 8 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,725since 1882
Thompson over time
Rank among boys' names. Thompson has never cracked the top 600 here.
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 | #14,942 | 5 | #2,332 | 59 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #2,915 | 43 |
| 2023 | — | #3,416 | 34 | |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #2,616 | 51 |
| 2021 | — | #2,277 | 61 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,505 | 51 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,265 | 61 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,937 | 76 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #2,345 | 55 |
| 2016 | — | #2,477 | 51 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,328 | 56 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,038 | 37 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,265 | 33 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,115 | 36 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,885 | 26 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,014 | 38 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,399 | 32 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,486 | 31 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,090 | 37 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,686 | 27 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,389 | 29 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,741 | 38 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,044 | 31 | |
| 2002 | — | #5,395 | 13 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,617 | 23 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,993 | 29 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,608 | 33 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,191 | 24 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,903 | 26 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,549 | 19 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,432 | 19 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,847 | 25 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,347 | 32 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,920 | 15 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,989 | 21 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,553 | 26 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,106 | 33 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,599 | 22 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,201 | 15 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,510 | 21 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,270 | 13 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,411 | 12 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,596 | 18 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,831 | 16 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,465 | 19 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,614 | 10 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,386 | 11 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,709 | 15 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,902 | 13 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,190 | 7 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,513 | 15 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,152 | 10 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,739 | 12 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,549 | 12 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,445 | 12 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,242 | 13 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,986 | 8 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,987 | 16 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,850 | 19 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,414 | 12 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,364 | 12 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,948 | 18 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,210 | 14 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,033 | 16 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,724 | 21 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,837 | 19 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,765 | 20 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,902 | 17 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,956 | 16 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,099 | 14 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,615 | 22 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,344 | 30 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,572 | 22 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,544 | 23 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,378 | 28 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,916 | 16 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,692 | 18 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,581 | 18 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,438 | 22 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,833 | 16 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,467 | 23 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,446 | 22 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,573 | 19 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,532 | 19 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,741 | 16 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,688 | 17 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,872 | 14 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,529 | 9 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,725 | 17 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,644 | 18 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,101 | 13 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,328 | 11 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,496 | 24 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,611 | 21 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,902 | 17 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,121 | 15 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,605 | 22 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,806 | 19 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,414 | 28 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,874 | 18 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,827 | 19 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,829 | 19 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,348 | 29 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,973 | 16 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,231 | 32 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,815 | 17 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,335 | 26 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,306 | 26 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,687 | 14 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,092 | 8 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,353 | 13 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,537 | 6 | |
| 1910 | — | #1,045 | 10 | |
| 1909 | — | #1,440 | 5 | |
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | #999 | 8 | |
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | #1,233 | 5 | |
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | #1,013 | 6 | |
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | #928 | 6 | |
| 1898 | — | #1,121 | 5 | |
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | #900 | 7 | |
| 1895 | — | #795 | 8 | |
| 1894 | — | #1,074 | 5 | |
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | #700 | 8 | |
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | #679 | 8 | |
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | #943 | 5 | |
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Thompson! It came in at #943, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1882–1886, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Thompson is popular in 1887
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Thompson
- 583 spots since 2024 (#2,915 → #2,332)
- 173 spots since 2020 (#2,505 → #2,332)
- 4 spots since 2015 (#2,328 → #2,332)
- Biggest jump: 279 spots in 1895 (#1,074 → #795)
- Biggest drop: 105 spots in 1896 (#795 → #900)
- Debuted 1882
- Peaked 1887 at #679 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1888, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1895–1896
- Highest: 1 in 12,649 boys born in 1891 were named Thompson (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,950 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #679 in 1887, was only 1 in 12,676 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 17.2% of all boys named Thompson (469) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 13 | #679 (1887) | #811 |
| 1890s | 39 | #700 (1891) | #920 |
| 1900s | 24 | #999 (1907) | #1,171 |
| 1910s | 168 | #1,045 (1910) | #1,537 |
| 1920s | 207 | #1,348 (1920) | #1,734 |
| 1930s | 158 | #1,496 (1930) | #1,866 |
| 1940s | 205 | #1,378 (1948) | #1,587 |
| 1950s | 197 | #1,344 (1951) | #1,785 |
| 1960s | 136 | #1,850 (1964) | #2,300 |
| 1970s | 119 | #2,465 (1979) | #3,163 |
| 1980s | 161 | #2,106 (1989) | #3,457 |
| 1990s | 240 | #2,347 (1993) | #3,034 |
| 2000s | 290 | #2,741 (2004) | #3,484 |
| 2010s | 469 | #1,937 (2018) | #2,767 |
| 2020s | 299 | #2,277 (2021) | #2,677 |
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.
Thompson in 1887
Top boys' names in 1887
More about 1887
boys
101,410 boys got a published name in 1887; 1 in 12,676 of them was named Thompson, which outranked 36.4% of the 1,067 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 42.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).