girls:
29 births since 1984
#5687 (0th percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1977
#3557 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1977
#6672 (14th percentile)
The name Thien is the #6,672 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,067 recorded births since 1977. This represents the 13.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,557 (22.4% percentile) for all time with 1,038 births since 1977. For girls, it ranks #5,687 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 29 births since 1984.
Thien first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1977 (1977 for boys and 1984 for girls).
The name Thien has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Thien reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #741) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 21 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Thien ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 28.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Thien reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #786) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Thien".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Thien", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 9 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Tien" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Tien..
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Thien. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.7% confident that Thien is pronounced as theen, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is teen, at 27.3% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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