Thorne
- #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · boys
- 1956 · 9 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 465since 1920
Thorne over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Thorne has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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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 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #8,864 | 8 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #3,842 | 21 |
| 2000 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #4,873 | 13 |
| 1997 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #5,187 | 11 |
| 1995 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,697 | 12 |
| 1992 | #3,748 | 16 |
| 1991 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | #3,166 | 19 |
| 1989 | #3,809 | 14 |
| 1988 | #3,523 | 14 |
| 1987 | #3,521 | 13 |
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| 1965 | #3,244 | 7 |
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| 1962 | #3,640 | 6 |
| 1961 | #3,356 | 7 |
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| 1958 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1957 | #3,257 | 7 |
| 1956 | #2,798 | 9 |
| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
| 1954 | #3,452 | 6 |
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| 1952 | #3,734 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
| 1947 | #3,733 | 5 |
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| 1920 | #3,489 | 7 |
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First appearance
1920
The first year at least five boys were named Thorne! It came in at #3,489, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1921–1953, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Thorne is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Thorne in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 598 spots since 2024 (#8,312 → #8,910)
- 644 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #8,910)
- 658 spots since 2015 (#9,568 → #8,910)
Rise & fade · boys
36 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 1956 at #2,798 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1959, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 92,518
- Highest: 1 in 92,518 boys born in 2001 were named Thorne (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,798 in 1956, was only 1 in 235,034 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 25.6% of all boys named Thorne (119) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 7 | #3,489 (1920) | #3,489 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 10 | #3,668 (1948) | #3,701 |
| 1950s | 38 | #2,798 (1956) | #3,448 |
| 1960s | 20 | #3,244 (1965) | #3,413 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 41 | #3,521 (1987) | #3,618 |
| 1990s | 116 | #3,166 (1990) | #4,758 |
| 2000s | 119 | #3,842 (2001) | #6,975 |
| 2010s | 64 | #7,048 (2014) | #9,135 |
| 2020s | 50 | #7,262 (2022) | #8,779 |
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.
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