Thos

Last seen for boys in 1928 at #3,697

Peak · boys
1881 · 8 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
166
since 1881

Thos over time

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Rank among boys' names. Thos has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201884peak #653, 1881boys
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1928#3,6976
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1919#3,3917
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1917#2,28012
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First appearance
1881

The first year at least five boys were named Thos! It came in at #653, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1882, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Thos is popular in 1884

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Thos
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1928
  • Biggest jump: 135 spots in 1885 (#971 → #836)
  • Biggest drop: 172 spots in 1884 (#799 → #971)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1881
  • Peaked 1881 at #653 (8 births)
  • Births halved by 1882, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 8 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1883–1886
Share of babies · boys
1 in 12,592
  • Highest: 1 in 12,592 boys born in 1881 were named Thos (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 184,602 boys born in 1928 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1910s
  • 51.2% of all boys named Thos (85) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s43#653 (1881)#844
1890s5#963 (1891)#963
1900s7#1,050 (1900)#1,050
1910s85#1,527 (1912)#2,294
1920s26#3,260 (1924)#3,620

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.

Thos in 1884

boys
#971
5 births · 1 in 22,888 boys

Top boys' names in 1884

  1. #1John9,388
  2. #2William8,897
  3. #3James5,693
  4. #4George4,961
  5. #5Charles4,802
  6. #6Frank3,218
  7. #7Joseph2,707
  8. #8Thomas2,572
  9. #9Henry2,474
  10. #10Robert2,468
  11. #971Thos5
More about 1884

boys

114,441 boys got a published name in 1884; 1 in 22,888 of them was named Thos, which outranked 13.7% of the 1,125 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 41.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Thos
  1. #848Whit6
  2. #848Wilhelm6
  3. #848Zollie6
  4. #971Thos5
  5. #971Abb5
  6. #971Ace5
  7. #971Aden5

Tied with 154 names at #971; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1883
Risers
  1. ↑ 404Pierce#892 → #488
  2. ↑ 388Harlan#892 → #504
  3. ↑ 372Buck#892 → #520
  4. ↑ 345Noel#892 → #547
  5. ↑ 323Cleve#527 → #204
Fallers
  1. ↓ 444Ernie#527 → #971
  2. ↓ 415Chin#556 → #971
  3. ↓ 388Newt#460 → #848
  4. ↓ 369Cal#479 → #848
  5. ↓ 351Omar#497 → #848

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1884 →