girls:
79 births since 1936
#5637 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1912
#3296 (28th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1912
#6344 (18th percentile)
The name Thayer is the #6,344 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,399 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 18.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,296 (28.1% percentile) for all time with 1,320 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,637 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 79 births since 1936.
Thayer first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1936 for girls). Birth data for Thayer is available in 104 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (102 years for boys and 14 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Thayer has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Thayer reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 5.2% percentile (ranked #857) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 25 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Thayer ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 42.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Thayer reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #905) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Thayer".
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