Thorne
#9,610 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Thorne has been given to 465 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #9,610 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Thorne, 2025
1 in 414,000
Thorne 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Thorne?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,610
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Thorne 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thorne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Thornes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Thorne was born before 2000 — so the typical Thorne is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 25.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 46.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 448
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (119).
Is Thorne 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
- −696
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +875
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +904
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.14×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 38.1%
- Peak was 2001 (21)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.3% average annual change
Spellings of Thorne
Thorne is not the most common spelling — Thor is, with 28.8% against Thorne's 2.8%.
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.
Thorne around the world
Where Thorne 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 & Wales2001–2022#4,790in 2022
- Canada2007–2007#2,479in 2007
- South Australia1996–2001#581in 2001
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Thorne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Thorne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Thorne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.