Thad
Thad is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 401st, in 1967.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1967365 births
- Best rank
- #401in 1967
- Since 1880
- 8,212people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,212 boys have been named Thad in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1967, with 365 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 365 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1960s alone account for 24%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Thad | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 102 | |
| 1890s | 90 | |
| 1900s | 126 | |
| 1910s | 329 | |
| 1920s | 509 | |
| 1930s | 466 | |
| 1940s | 543 | |
| 1950s | 747 | |
| 1960s | 1,963 | |
| 1970s | 1,792 | |
| 1980s | 653 | |
| 1990s | 376 | |
| 2000s | 271 | |
| 2010s | 197 | |
| 2020s | 48 |
In 1967, its biggest year
Thad was the 401st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1967 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1967.
Names that rose and fell with Thad
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Toneypeak 1961
- Mattpeak 1959
- Careypeak 1957
- Hanspeak 1970
- Cliffpeak 1959
- Wadepeak 1970
- Lenpeak 1960
- Byronpeak 1964
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.