girls:
47 births since 1913
#5669 (1st percentile)
boys:
142 births since 1910
#4444 (3rd percentile)
overall:
189 births since 1910
#7550 (2nd percentile)
The name Thelmer is the #7,550 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 189 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 2.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,444 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 142 births since 1910. For girls, it ranks #5,669 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 47 births since 1913.
Thelmer first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for boys and 1913 for girls). Birth data for Thelmer is available in 22 out of the 29 years between 1910 and 1938 (19 years for boys and 7 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 Thelmer has been given predominantly to boys, with 75.1% of all recorded births being male. In 1938, 100.0% of babies named Thelmer were boys.
For boys, Thelmer reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #495) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 24 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1938.
For girls, Thelmer reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #600) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1931.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Thelmer".
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