Thanos

Boys' name

Diminutive of Athanasios

Thanos has been given to 105 babies in the U.S. since 2004. 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 2019, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Thanos, 2023

1 in 663,000

Thanos over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Thanos: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Athanasios

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Thanos means

Thanos is a diminutive of Athanasios.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Thanos is used in Greek.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈθa.nos/ for Thanos.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Thanos → Athanasios → Αθανάσιος → Ἀθανάσιος. The family’s meaning is “to die”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements thnēískō.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Athanasios.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 105 boys were recorded with the name Thanos between 2004 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2019; its best national rank was #5,317 in 2019.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Thanos?

Thanos had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only: 1 in 342,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Thanos 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thanos. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thanoss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thanos was born before 2017 — so the typical Thanos is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 64.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 105; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 64.8% of all recorded uses (68).

Is Thanos 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2019 (18)
Years since peak: 6; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 65.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,317; 2019

Spellings of Thanos

Thanos is not the most common spelling — Hans is, with 69.6% against Thanos's 0.47%.

Hans69.6%15,677
Thane11.6%2,604
Shanon7.7%1,732
Thanh4.9%1,099
Thang3.4%767
Tanis2.4%535
Thanos0.47%105

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.

Thanos around the world

Where Thanos 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
2021–2025
#5,137
in 2025
Canada
2015–2015
#2,414
in 2015

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Thanos by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,317; 2019
Peak year: 2019; 18 that year
First recorded: 2004
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 105
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Thanos

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

Thadeo Thaxton Thales Thamas Tharun Thaine Thaden Thailand Thao Tharen Thaddus Thaniel Thadd Thaison Thawng Thailan Thayden Thadis Thaer Thayer Thayne Henos Thang Tharon

Sibling names for Thanos

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

For a sister

Keren Leena Nala Kairi Emani Kamilah Elliot Royalty

For a brother

Joziah Ishaan Abdiel Khalid Kamryn Leighton Simeon Levon

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