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Thane

#3,439 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Thane has been given to 2,604 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #3,439 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Thane, 2025

1 in 97,500

Thane over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Thane: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Thane means

Thane is a given name.

The naming story behind Thane

Wikidata records Thane as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q98827230, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,604 boys were recorded with the name Thane between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 58 in 2015; its best national rank was #1,161 in 1963.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,878 in 2020 to #3,439 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,296 in 2015 to #3,439 in 2025.

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 Thane?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,439
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Thane sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thanes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thane was born before 1995 — so the typical Thane is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
18.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,445
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 18.8% of all recorded uses (490).

Is Thane 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
−447
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−561
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,143
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.6%
Peak was 2015 (58)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,161
1963

Spellings of Thane

Thane is not the most common spelling — Ethan is, with 36.5% against Thane's 0.19%.

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.

Where Thane is used

Across 1910–2025, Thane was most concentrated in Idaho — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 631,703 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Idaho1 in 100,000
  2. 2Montana1 in 100,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in —
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Thane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Thane around the world

Where Thane 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.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1958–1982
    #306
    in 1982

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Thane

People whose public names include Thane, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Thane by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,439
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 561
Best rank ever
#1,161
1963
Peak year
2015
58 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,604
Count in 2025
34

Names similar to Thane

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

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Names with a curve like Thane

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Thane, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Thane

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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