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Thyra

#11,834 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly temple, sanctuary

Thyra has been given to 1,320 babies in the U.S. since 1896. In 2025 it ranked #11,834 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Thyra, 2025

1 in 414,000

Thyra over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Thyra: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly temple, sanctuary

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Thyra means

Thyra may mean “temple, sanctuary”, associated with vé.

Origin, language, and formation

Thyra is used in Danish and Swedish.

Thyra comes through Old Danish Thyrvi and Old Norse Þórr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Thyrvi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,320 girls were recorded with the name Thyra between 1896 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1918; its best national rank was #771 in 1904.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,483 in 2020 to #11,834 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 Thyra?

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 girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,834
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Thyra sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thyra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thyras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thyra was born before 1939 — so the typical Thyra is around 86 today.

Median birth year
1939
About 86 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
15.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
477
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1910s — 15.6% of all recorded uses (206).

Is Thyra 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
−3,445
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,351
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
26.7%
Peak was 1918 (30)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#771
1904

Spellings of Thyra

Thyra is not the most common spelling — Tara is, with 33.1% against Thyra's 0.25%.

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 Thyra is used

Across 1910–2025, Thyra was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,975,867 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Thyra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Thyra around the world

Where Thyra 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
    2003–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1946–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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.

Thyra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,834
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,351
Best rank ever
#771
1904
Peak year
1918
30 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,320
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Thyra

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

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Sibling names for Thyra

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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