Thor
Thor is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 46 births. Its best rank was 883rd, in 1968.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 460.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2015118 births
- Best rank
- #883in 1968
- Since 1904
- 4,810people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,810 boys have been named Thor in the United States since 1904, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 118 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1993, and the 2010s alone account for 21%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Thor | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 86 | |
| 1920s | 117 | |
| 1930s | 91 | |
| 1940s | 137 | |
| 1950s | 208 | |
| 1960s | 567 | |
| 1970s | 537 | |
| 1980s | 469 | |
| 1990s | 498 | |
| 2000s | 699 | |
| 2010s | 1,026 | |
| 2020s | 370 |
In 2015, its biggest year
Thor was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2015 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2015.
Names that rose and fell with Thor
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Baronpeak 2008
- Thanepeak 2015
- Svenpeak 2015
- Dietrichpeak 2016
- Leifpeak 2022
- Eliotpeak 2012
- Joachimpeak 2006
- Patriciopeak 2009
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.