girls:
6 births since 1984
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
46 births since 1980
#4540 (1st percentile)
overall:
52 births since 1980
#7687 (1st percentile)
The name Tho is the #7,687 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 52 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 0.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,540 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 46 births since 1980. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1984.
Tho first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (1980 for boys and 1984 for girls). Birth data for Tho is available in 8 out of the 13 years between 1980 and 1992 (7 years for boys and 1 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 Tho has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.5% of all recorded births being male. In 1992, 100.0% of babies named Tho were boys.
For boys, Tho reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #691) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
For girls, Tho reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #787) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1984.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tho".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Tho. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.5% confident that Tho is pronounced as thoh, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is toh, at 24.4% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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