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Thana

Girls' name

Praise

Thana has been given to 68 babies in the U.S. since 1918. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1950, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Thana, 2006

1 in 791,000

Thana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Thana: meaning, origin, and history

Praise

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Thana means

Thana means “praise”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Thana is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /θa.ˈnaːʔ/ for Thana.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 68 girls were recorded with the name Thana between 1918 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1950; its best national rank was #4,242 in 1918.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Thana?

Thana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 791,000
5 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,442 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Thana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thana was born before 1950 — so the typical Thana is around 75 today.

Median birth year
1950
About 75 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
36
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1940s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (20).

Is Thana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1950 (8)
Years since peak
75
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,242
1918

Spellings of Thana

Thana is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 15.7% against Thana's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Thana around the world

Where Thana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2000–2019
    #6,801
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1948–1948
    #369
    in 1948

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Thana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,242
1918
Peak year
1950
8 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
68
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Thana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Thana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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