girls:
1.3k births since 1896
#4424 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1896
#6443 (17th percentile)
The name Thyra is the #6,443 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,299 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 16.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,424 (22.6% percentile) for all time with 1,299 births since 1896.
Thyra first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (first recorded for girls in 1896). Birth data for Thyra is available in 100 out of the 128 years between 1896 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 girls, Thyra reached its peak popularity in 1904, achieving the 4.9% percentile (ranked #332) with 75 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 75 births per million (ranked 4.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Thyra ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 11.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Thyra".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Thyra is pronounced as THAI-ruh, which has 2 syllables.
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