Thure

Boys' name

Variant of Tore

Thure has been given to 18 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1915, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Thure, 1924

1 in 476,000

Thure over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Thure: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Tore

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Thure means

Thure is a variant of Tore.

Origin, language, and formation

Thure is used in Swedish.

Thure comes through Old Norse Þórir.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tore.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18 boys were recorded with the name Thure between 1914 and 1924. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1915; its best national rank was #3,230 in 1914.

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.

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How common is Thure?

Thure had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1924, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1924: 1 in 476,000; 5 of 2,381,562 births
Among boys only: 1 in 227,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1924: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 330,156 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Thure 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 1924 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 330,156 children born in 1924 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thure. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thures were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thure was born before 1915 — so the typical Thure is around 110 today.

Median birth year: 1915; About 110 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 72.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 72.2% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Thure 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1915 (7)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,230; 1914

Spellings of Thure

Thure is not the most common spelling — Tre is, with 30.3% against Thure's 0.09%.

Tre30.3%5,892
Thor25.0%4,857
Thane13.4%2,604
True12.7%2,479
Tyre10.9%2,119
Torre4.4%861
Truce3.2%620
Thure0.09%18

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.

Thure 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: #3,230; 1914
Peak year: 1915; 7 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 1924
All-time count: 18
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Thure

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

Thuy Thurlo Culture Thuong Amaure Amoure Pure Thuan Thurber Thu Thurl Kulture Venture Nature Azure Azzure Allure Mcclure Thurnell Thurgood Future Thunder Jahcure Manaure

Sibling names for Thure

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman

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