girls:
147 births since 1914
#5569 (3rd percentile)
overall:
147 births since 1914
#7592 (2nd percentile)
The name Thetis is the #7,592 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 147 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 1.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,569 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 147 births since 1914.
Thetis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (first recorded for girls in 1914). Birth data for Thetis is available in 20 out of the 36 years between 1914 and 1949. 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.
For girls, Thetis reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #554) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 10 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1949.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Thetis".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Thetis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.5% confident that Thetis is pronounced as THEE-tihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is THEH-tihs, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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