boys:
3.1k births since 1880
#2237 (51st percentile)
overall:
3.1k births since 1880
#4868 (37th percentile)
The name Thornton is the #4,868 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,116 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 37.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,237 (51.2% percentile) for all time with 3,116 births since 1880.
Thornton has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Thornton is available in 139 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. 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 boys, Thornton reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 12.8% percentile (ranked #480) with 66 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 148 births per million (ranked 5.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Thornton ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Thornton".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Thornton. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.8% confident that Thornton is pronounced as THORNT-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is THOR-tuhn, at 12.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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