Thien
#11,844 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Thien has been given to 1,084 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #11,844 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 42 recorded.
Babies named Thien, 2025
1 in 553,000
Thien 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Thien?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,844
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Thien sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thien. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Thiens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Thien was born before 2001 — so the typical Thien is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 26.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 51.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,055
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 26.5% of all recorded uses (280).
Is Thien 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
- −4,141
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −7,165
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,210
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.46×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 14.3%
- Peak was 1996 (42)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.9% average annual change
Spellings of Thien
Thien is not the most common spelling — Theo is, with 56.6% against Thien's 1.7%.
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 Thien is used
Across 1910–2025, Thien was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 109,873 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Texas1 in 100,000
- 3Louisiana1 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. Thien has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Thien around the world
Where Thien 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 & Wales1998–2023#4,992in 2023
- France1976–2019#5,354in 2019
- Canada1992–2020#2,066in 2020
- South Australia1981–2012#514in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Thien by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Thien
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Thien
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.