girls:
40 births since 1925
#5676 (1st percentile)
boys:
12.9k births since 1880
#1020 (78th percentile)
overall:
12.9k births since 1880
#2319 (70th percentile)
The name Theron is the #2,319 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,898 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 70.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,020 (77.8% percentile) for all time with 12,858 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,676 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 40 births since 1925.
Theron has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1925 for girls). Birth data for Theron is available in 141 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (141 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 Theron has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Theron reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 26.8% percentile (ranked #392) with 148 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 182 births per million (ranked 11.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Theron ranks #875 for boys (4.0% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 12.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Theron reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #959) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% 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 "Theron".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Theron. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.2% confident that Theron is pronounced as THEH-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is THIH-ruhn, at 9.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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