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Thurston

#13,691 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Germanic languages origin

Thurston has been given to 3,501 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #13,691 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 73 recorded.

Babies named Thurston, 2025

1 in 663,000

Thurston over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Thurston: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Germanic languages origin

Germanic languages

What Thurston means

Thurston is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Thurston is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Thurston is pronounced /ˈθɝs.tən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,501 boys were recorded with the name Thurston between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 73 in 1918; its best national rank was #679 in 1913.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,445 in 2020 to #13,691 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,033 in 2015 to #13,691 in 2025.

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 Thurston?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,691
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Thurston 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thurston. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thurstons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thurston was born before 1949 — so the typical Thurston is around 76 today.

Median birth year
1949
About 76 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
15.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,716
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1920s — 15.5% of all recorded uses (542).

Is Thurston 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
−5,438
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,246
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−8,658
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.26×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.8%
Peak was 1918 (73)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#679
1913

Spellings of Thurston

Thurston is the most-used spelling, taking 33.7% of the 10,400 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Thurston is used

Across 1910–2025, Thurston was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 144,808 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 20,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 100,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 100,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Georgia1 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. Thurston has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Thurston around the world

Where Thurston 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
    1997–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1996–2011
    #2,366
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    2008–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Notable people named Thurston

People whose public names include Thurston, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Thurston by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,691
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,246
Best rank ever
#679
1913
Peak year
1918
73 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,501
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Thurston

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

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Names with a curve like Thurston

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Thurston, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Thurston

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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