Thor
#2,833 for boys in 2025, 44 births
- Peak · boys
- 1968 · 67 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,857since 1904
Thor over time
Rank among boys' names. Thor has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,833 | 44 |
| 2024 | #2,789 | 46 |
| 2023 | #2,078 | 71 |
| 2022 | #1,917 | 81 |
| 2021 | #1,799 | 87 |
| 2020 | #1,766 | 86 |
| 2019 | #1,678 | 95 |
| 2018 | #1,576 | 106 |
| 2017 | #1,612 | 99 |
| 2016 | #1,724 | 90 |
| 2015 | #1,438 | 118 |
| 2014 | #1,436 | 115 |
| 2013 | #1,624 | 94 |
| 2012 | #1,535 | 104 |
| 2011 | #1,505 | 107 |
| 2010 | #1,599 | 98 |
| 2009 | #1,873 | 77 |
| 2008 | #1,553 | 103 |
| 2007 | #1,928 | 73 |
| 2006 | #1,840 | 74 |
| 2005 | #1,752 | 75 |
| 2004 | #2,075 | 57 |
| 2003 | #1,717 | 71 |
| 2002 | #1,943 | 57 |
| 2001 | #1,800 | 62 |
| 2000 | #2,015 | 50 |
| 1999 | #1,966 | 49 |
| 1998 | #2,068 | 45 |
| 1997 | #1,859 | 50 |
| 1996 | #1,872 | 48 |
| 1995 | #1,887 | 45 |
| 1994 | #1,734 | 51 |
| 1993 | #1,850 | 45 |
| 1992 | #1,490 | 61 |
| 1991 | #1,699 | 48 |
| 1990 | #1,516 | 56 |
| 1989 | #1,537 | 53 |
| 1988 | #1,525 | 48 |
| 1987 | #1,337 | 55 |
| 1986 | #1,419 | 49 |
| 1985 | #1,644 | 38 |
| 1984 | #1,422 | 45 |
| 1983 | #1,490 | 41 |
| 1982 | #1,514 | 41 |
| 1981 | #1,520 | 40 |
| 1980 | #1,187 | 59 |
| 1979 | #1,270 | 52 |
| 1978 | #1,352 | 46 |
| 1977 | #1,515 | 37 |
| 1976 | #1,469 | 37 |
| 1975 | #1,258 | 46 |
| 1974 | #1,151 | 51 |
| 1973 | #1,054 | 59 |
| 1972 | #1,007 | 64 |
| 1971 | #904 | 81 |
| 1970 | #1,005 | 65 |
| 1969 | #951 | 65 |
| 1968 | #877 | 67 |
| 1967 | #1,071 | 47 |
| 1966 | #883 | 67 |
| 1965 | #957 | 59 |
| 1964 | #1,006 | 56 |
| 1963 | #1,081 | 50 |
| 1962 | #1,056 | 52 |
| 1961 | #958 | 64 |
| 1960 | #1,229 | 41 |
| 1959 | #1,501 | 28 |
| 1958 | #1,644 | 23 |
| 1957 | #1,791 | 20 |
| 1956 | #1,511 | 27 |
| 1955 | #1,339 | 32 |
| 1954 | #2,114 | 14 |
| 1953 | #1,900 | 17 |
| 1952 | #1,665 | 21 |
| 1951 | #2,135 | 13 |
| 1950 | #2,111 | 13 |
| 1949 | #1,754 | 18 |
| 1948 | #2,027 | 14 |
| 1947 | #1,733 | 19 |
| 1946 | #2,271 | 11 |
| 1945 | #2,131 | 11 |
| 1944 | #1,810 | 15 |
| 1943 | #1,986 | 14 |
| 1942 | #1,946 | 14 |
| 1941 | #1,821 | 15 |
| 1940 | #3,130 | 6 |
| 1939 | #2,609 | 8 |
| 1938 | #2,084 | 12 |
| 1937 | #2,479 | 9 |
| 1936 | #3,147 | 6 |
| 1935 | #2,396 | 10 |
| 1934 | #2,266 | 11 |
| 1933 | #3,642 | 5 |
| 1932 | #2,191 | 12 |
| 1931 | #2,471 | 10 |
| 1930 | #3,022 | 8 |
| 1929 | #2,199 | 13 |
| 1928 | #2,048 | 15 |
| 1927 | #4,210 | 5 |
| 1926 | #2,904 | 9 |
| 1925 | #2,012 | 16 |
| 1924 | #2,347 | 13 |
| 1923 | #3,175 | 8 |
| 1922 | #2,630 | 11 |
| 1921 | #2,632 | 11 |
| 1920 | #2,052 | 16 |
| 1919 | #2,877 | 9 |
| 1918 | #2,398 | 12 |
| 1917 | #1,986 | 15 |
| 1916 | #2,543 | 10 |
| 1915 | #2,070 | 13 |
| 1914 | #1,975 | 11 |
| 1913 | #1,945 | 9 |
| 1912 | #2,045 | 7 |
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| 1904 | #1,205 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Thor! It came in at #1,205, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1904–1911, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Thor is popular in 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#1,239 · 1 in 17,368
- California#1,861 · 1 in 40,301
Best ever in a state: #269 in Wisconsin, 1968.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #1,239 | 5 | 1 in 17,368 |
| California | #1,861 | 6 | 1 in 40,301 |
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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 Thor
- 44 spots since 2024 (#2,789 → #2,833)
- 1,067 spots since 2020 (#1,766 → #2,833)
- 1,395 spots since 2015 (#1,438 → #2,833)
- Biggest jump: 271 spots in 1961 (#1,229 → #958)
- Biggest drop: 188 spots in 1967 (#883 → #1,071)
- Debuted 1904
- Peaked 1968 at #877 (67 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1965–1966
- Highest: 1 in 16,244 boys born in 2015 were named Thor (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 38,820 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #877 in 1968, was only 1 in 25,940 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 21.1% of all boys named Thor (1,026) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | #1,205 (1904) | #1,205 |
| 1910s | 86 | #1,945 (1913) | #2,230 |
| 1920s | 117 | #2,012 (1925) | #2,621 |
| 1930s | 91 | #2,084 (1938) | #2,631 |
| 1940s | 137 | #1,733 (1947) | #2,061 |
| 1950s | 208 | #1,339 (1955) | #1,771 |
| 1960s | 568 | #877 (1968) | #1,007 |
| 1970s | 538 | #904 (1971) | #1,199 |
| 1980s | 469 | #1,187 (1980) | #1,460 |
| 1990s | 498 | #1,490 (1992) | #1,794 |
| 2000s | 699 | #1,553 (2008) | #1,850 |
| 2010s | 1,026 | #1,436 (2014) | #1,573 |
| 2020s | 415 | #1,766 (2020) | #2,197 |
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.
Thor in 1999
Top boys' names in 1999
More about 1999
boys
1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 39,187 of them was named Thor, which outranked 83.1% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,932Silvestre50
- #1,932Tarek50
- #1,932Xavion50
- #1,966Thor49
- #1,966Arian49
- #1,966Brien49
- #1,966Carmen49
- #1,995Abdiel48
- #1,995Aedan48
- #1,995Akiva48
Tied with 28 names at #1,966; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.