girls:
58 births since 1995
#5658 (1st percentile)
boys:
6 births since 2019
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
64 births since 1995
#7675 (1st percentile)
The name Thyme is the #7,675 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 64 recorded births since 1995. This represents the 0.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,658 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 58 births since 1995. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2019.
Thyme first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1995 (1995 for girls and 2019 for boys). Birth data for Thyme is available in 10 out of the 28 years between 1995 and 2022 (9 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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 Thyme has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Thyme reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #882) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Thyme reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #916) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Thyme".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Taim. View all variations of Taim.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Thyme", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 6 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Taim" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Taim..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Thyme. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.5% confident that Thyme is pronounced as thaim, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is taim, at 47.5% confidence, with 1 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Thyme? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Thyme. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Thyme, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like TH AY1 M) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker