Thurston
Thurston is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 679th, in 1913.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191873 births
- Best rank
- #679in 1913
- Since 1884
- 3,497people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,497 boys have been named Thurston in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 73 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 25 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Thurston | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | |
| 1890s | 14 | |
| 1900s | 65 | |
| 1910s | 428 | |
| 1920s | 542 | |
| 1930s | 358 | |
| 1940s | 371 | |
| 1950s | 338 | |
| 1960s | 296 | |
| 1970s | 275 | |
| 1980s | 243 | |
| 1990s | 164 | |
| 2000s | 173 | |
| 2010s | 172 | |
| 2020s | 51 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Thurston was the 759th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Thurston
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Olanpeak 1920
- Pasqualepeak 1917
- Reynoldspeak 1923
- Odellpeak 1922
- Reynoldpeak 1922
- Coypeak 1926
- Armandpeak 1918
- Odispeak 1921
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.