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Thijs

Boys' name

Gift, reward + YHWH, God, through Matthijs

Thijs has been given to 112 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 2007, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Thijs, 2024

1 in 669,000

Thijs over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Thijs: meaning, origin, and history

Gift, reward + YHWH, God, through Matthijs

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Thijs means

Thijs belongs to the name family reached through Thijs → Matthijs. Its meaning is “gift, reward + YHWH, God”.

Origin, language, and formation

Thijs is used in Dutch.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matthijs.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Thijs is pronounced /ˈtɛi̯s/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 112 boys were recorded with the name Thijs between 2004 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2007; its best national rank was #5,186 in 2007.

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 Thijs?

Thijs had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Thijs 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thijs. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thijss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thijs was born before 2009 — so the typical Thijs is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
112
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 50.9% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Thijs 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2007 (18)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,186
2007

Spellings of Thijs

Thijs is not the most common spelling — Thien is, with 90.4% against Thijs's 9.6%.

  • Thien90.4%1,055
  • Thijs9.6%112

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.

Thijs around the world

Where Thijs 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
    2007–2009
    #4,527
    in 2009
  • France
    2001–2001
    #4,393
    in 2001
  • Canada
    2018–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2012
    #771
    in 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.

Thijs 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
#5,186
2007
Peak year
2007
18 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
112
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Thijs

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

ThianThielenThinhThienanThienThiernoThiThierryThielThirlThiloThibaultThiegoThimothyThiyashThirstonThiagoMatthijsMathijsThienlong

Sibling names for Thijs

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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