Thatcher
Last seen for girls in 2016 at #8,875 · #1,108 for boys in 2025, 194 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 288 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,955since 1965
Thatcher over time
Rank among boys' names. Thatcher has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,108 | 194 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,038 | 214 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,000 | 220 | |
| 2022 | — | #963 | 235 | |
| 2021 | — | #815 | 297 | |
| 2020 | — | #841 | 271 | |
| 2019 | — | #797 | 288 | |
| 2018 | — | #818 | 274 | |
| 2017 | — | #848 | 260 | |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | #829 | 274 |
| 2015 | — | #897 | 242 | |
| 2014 | — | #868 | 254 | |
| 2013 | — | #991 | 200 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,052 | 181 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,108 | 166 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,149 | 161 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,381 | 123 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,467 | 112 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,255 | 140 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,085 | 162 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,535 | 92 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,051 | 58 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,206 | 49 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,068 | 52 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,386 | 41 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,423 | 24 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,480 | 22 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,782 | 29 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,160 | 23 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,830 | 17 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,559 | 18 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,215 | 21 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,819 | 16 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,338 | 19 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,476 | 12 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,823 | 8 | |
| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,786 | 9 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,089 | 6 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,130 | 10 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
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| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,898 | 15 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,098 | 14 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,929 | 14 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,836 | 9 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,724 | 9 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,078 | 12 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,344 | 9 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
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| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Thatcher! It came in at #3,930, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1965–1966, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Thatcher
- 70 spots since 2024 (#1,038 → #1,108)
- 267 spots since 2020 (#841 → #1,108)
- 211 spots since 2015 (#897 → #1,108)
- Biggest jump: 123 spots in 2014 (#991 → #868)
- Biggest drop: 148 spots in 2022 (#815 → #963)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 2019 at #797 (288 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2013–2023
- Highest: 1 in 5,891 boys born in 2021 were named Thatcher (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,805 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #797 in 2019, was only 1 in 6,230 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 46.4% of all boys named Thatcher (2,300) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 18 | #3,559 (1967) | #3,695 |
| 1970s | 85 | #2,929 (1978) | #3,909 |
| 1980s | 83 | #2,898 (1981) | #4,872 |
| 1990s | 185 | #2,782 (1998) | #3,748 |
| 2000s | 853 | #1,085 (2006) | #1,886 |
| 2010s | 2,300 | #797 (2019) | #936 |
| 2020s | 1,431 | #815 (2021) | #961 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Thatcher in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
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1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 21,710 of them was named Thatcher, which outranked 88.5% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,525Marley93
- #1,525Patricio93
- #1,525Rian93
- #1,535Thatcher92
- #1,535Aries92
- #1,535Edgardo92
- #1,535Edson92
- #1,546Greg91
- #1,546Jaysen91
- #1,546Jeremias91
Tied with 10 names at #1,535; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.