Tharon
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tharon has been given to 650 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1963, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 74% boys, 26% girls all-time.
Babies named Tharon, 2019
1 in 496,000
Tharon over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Tharon over time
In 2019, Tharon went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Tharon?
Tharon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 496,000
- 7 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 256,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 343,825 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tharon sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 343,825 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tharon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tharons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tharon was born before 1977 — so the typical Tharon is around 48 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 22.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 429
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (107).
Is Tharon 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1963 (14)
- Years since peak
- 62
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.3% average annual change
Spellings of Tharon
Tharon is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 81.1% against Tharon's 0.06%.
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 Tharon is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Tharon was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 413,516 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Tennessee1 in —
- 2West Virginia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Tharon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Tharon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Tharon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tharon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.