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Thierry

#5,181 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Theodoric

Thierry has been given to 887 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #5,181 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Thierry, 2025

1 in 174,000

Thierry over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Thierry: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Theodoric

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Thierry means

Thierry is a form of Theodoric.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Thierry → Theodoric → Theodericus. The family’s meaning is “people + king”, recorded in Latin with the source elements þeudō and rīks.

Origin, language, and formation

Thierry is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Theodoric.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Thierry is pronounced /ti.ʁi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 855 boys were recorded with the name Thierry between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 2007; its best national rank was #2,463 in 1965.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,259 in 2020 to #5,181 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,686 in 2015 to #5,181 in 2025.

In the United States, 32 girls were recorded with the name Thierry between 2006 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2010; its best national rank was #15,138 in 2022.

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 Thierry?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,181
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Thierry 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thierry. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thierrys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thierry was born before 2006 — so the typical Thierry is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
850
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 23.9% of all recorded uses (204).

Is Thierry 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
+445
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−922
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−495
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.90×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.5%
Peak was 2007 (40)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,463
1965

Spellings of Thierry

Thierry is not the most common spelling — Terry is, with 99.6% against Thierry's 0.20%.

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 Thierry is used

Across 1910–2025, Thierry was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 459,420 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Thierry has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Thierry around the world

Where Thierry 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
    1996–2025
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2002
    #451
    in 2002
  • France
    1905–2025
    #2,635
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1963–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Thierry by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,181
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 922
Best rank ever
#2,463
1965
Peak year
2007
40 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
855
Count in 2025
19

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,138
2022
Peak year
2010
6 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
32
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Thierry

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

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Sibling names for Thierry

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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