Thien
Last seen for girls in 2007 at #15,491 · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to boys 97.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1981 · 27 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,055since 1977
Thien over time
Rank among boys' names. Thien has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | — | #10,695 | 6 | |
| 2024 | — | #7,257 | 11 | |
| 2023 | — | #7,289 | 11 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,215 | 18 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,338 | 17 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,540 | 21 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,951 | 19 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,320 | 17 | |
| 2017 | — | #4,331 | 23 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,199 | 24 | |
| 2015 | — | #6,324 | 13 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,787 | 27 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,313 | 22 | |
| 2012 | — | #5,035 | 18 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,822 | 19 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,894 | 26 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,278 | 23 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,221 | 35 | |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #3,313 | 33 |
| 2006 | — | #4,001 | 24 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,960 | 35 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,534 | 26 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #3,626 | 24 |
| 2002 | — | #3,349 | 26 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,410 | 25 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,993 | 29 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,279 | 24 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,197 | 16 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,160 | 23 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,047 | 42 | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #2,762 | 26 |
| 1994 | — | #2,766 | 26 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,697 | 26 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,909 | 23 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #2,344 | 30 |
| 1990 | — | #2,865 | 22 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,416 | 27 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,509 | 23 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,468 | 22 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,131 | 15 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,504 | 20 | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #2,613 | 18 |
| 1983 | — | #2,341 | 21 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,709 | 17 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,996 | 27 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,831 | 16 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Thien! It came in at #5,845, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1978, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
See more about Thien
- 3,438 spots since 2024 (#7,257 → #10,695)
- 6,155 spots since 2020 (#4,540 → #10,695)
- 4,371 spots since 2015 (#6,324 → #10,695)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 1981 at #1,996 (27 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 34 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 45,102 boys born in 1996 were named Thien (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,996 in 1981, was only 1 in 66,340 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.5% of all boys named Thien (280) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 19 | #4,403 (1979) | #5,102 |
| 1980s | 206 | #1,996 (1981) | #2,552 |
| 1990s | 258 | #2,047 (1996) | #2,903 |
| 2000s | 280 | #2,960 (2005) | #3,469 |
| 2010s | 208 | #3,787 (2014) | #4,698 |
| 2020s | 84 | #4,540 (2020) | #6,722 |
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.
Thien in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 66,340 of them was named Thien, which outranked 72.6% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,942Wm28
- #1,942Yousef28
- #1,942Zach28
- #1,996Thien27
- #1,996Ahren27
- #1,996Anastacio27
- #1,996Broc27
- #2,038Alford26
- #2,038Ameer26
- #2,038Antwoine26
Tied with 41 names at #1,996; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.