Thayer
Thayer is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 23 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 230.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201452 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1912
- 1,422people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,343 boys have been named Thayer in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 52 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1997, and the 2010s alone account for 30%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 79 girls have also been given it, 5.6% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Thayer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 74 | |
| 1920s | 79 | |
| 1930s | 58 | |
| 1940s | 61 | |
| 1950s | 48 | |
| 1960s | 84 | |
| 1970s | 72 | |
| 1980s | 91 | |
| 1990s | 131 | |
| 2000s | 135 | |
| 2010s | 404 | |
| 2020s | 106 |
In 2014, its biggest year
Thayer was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2014 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Thayer
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Morrisonpeak 2015
- Tennysonpeak 2014
- Ablepeak 2014
- Carmelopeak 2013
- Prescottpeak 2017
- Dixonpeak 2014
- Nylepeak 2016
- Levinpeak 2011
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.