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Thatcher

#1,111 in 2025Boys' name

Thatch

Thatcher has been given to 4,967 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #1,111 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 297 recorded.

Babies named Thatcher, 2025

1 in 17,100

Thatcher over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Thatcher: meaning, origin, and history

Thatch

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Thatcher means

Thatcher means “thatch”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,955 boys were recorded with the name Thatcher between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 297 in 2021; its best national rank was #798 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #845 in 2020 to #1,111 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #901 in 2015 to #1,111 in 2025.

In the United States, 12 girls were recorded with the name Thatcher between 2016 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2016; its best national rank was #9,376 in 2016.

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 Thatcher?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,100
194 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 8,800
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,111
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,846 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Thatcher 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,846 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thatcher. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thatchers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thatcher was born before 2016 — so the typical Thatcher is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,955
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 46.4% of all recorded uses (2,300).

Is Thatcher 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
−70
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−266
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−210
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.3%
Peak was 2021 (297)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#798
2019

Spellings of Thatcher

Thatcher is the most-used spelling, taking 88.9% of the 5,572 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Thatcher is used

Across 2016–2025, Thatcher was most concentrated in Vermont — about 1 in 1,961 boys, against 1 in 6,915 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

251 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Vermont1 in 1,961
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 2,000
  3. 3Utah1 in 2,041
  4. 4Missouri1 in 2,564
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 2,857
  6. 6Kansas1 in 3,125
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 3,226
  8. 8Colorado1 in 3,571

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.

Geographically, Thatcher is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 65% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Thatcher around the world

Where Thatcher 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
    2015–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #1,071
    in 2024

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.

Thatcher by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,111
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 266
Best rank ever
#798
2019
Peak year
2021
297 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,955
Count in 2025
194

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,376
2016
Peak year
2016
12 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Thatcher

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

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Names with a curve like Thatcher

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

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Sibling names for Thatcher

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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