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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 147,669 of them was named Thatcher, which outranked 53.0% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,393Zurii13
- #8,393Zyion13
- #8,393Zykeria13
- #8,875Thatcher12
- #8,875Abcde12
- #8,875Aberdeen12
- #8,875Abigal12
- #9,411Aabriella11
- #9,411Aaditri11
- #9,411Aaila11
Tied with 535 names at #8,875; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 6,926 of them was named Thatcher, which outranked 94.2% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).