How rare is the name Thad?

6,017 people in the United States have the first name Thad, about 1 in 50,196. It ranks #3,453 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

THAD

#3,453

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,017
About
1 in 50,196
This common or more
82.4%
Who bears it

Of the 6,017 people named Thad, 88.6% reported their origin as White, 5% as Black and 2.7% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Thad peaked in 1967, when 365 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1967
Births that year
365
In 2025*
8 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 8,224 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Thad by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #1,249. The largest share of babies named Thad, 39.3%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1880s#1,249102
1890s#1,69790
1900s#1,685126
1910s#1,979329
1920s#1,951509
1930s#1,889471
1940s#1,954543
1950s#1,949747
1960s#1,2551,963
1970s#1,3951,791
1980s#2,865653
1990s#5,188376
2000s#8,140271
2010s#10,752197
2020s#16,87256
Before 19012.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–2710.3%
Silent Generation 1928–4510.9%
Baby boom 1946–6419.1%
Generation X 1965–8039.3%
Millennials 1981–9610.4%
Generation Z 1997–125.3%
2013 and later2.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Thad is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Thad has been most common in South Dakota (4.1×), North Carolina (4.1×), and Iowa (3×), and least common in New York (0.28×).

3,836 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Thad

1 other first name also has 6,017 people.

#3,453 Imran · 6,017

Either side of Thad

#3,451 Murphy · 6,019#3,453 Imran · 6,017#3,455 Jaylyn · 6,015#3,456 Anisa · 6,013

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Thad, most common first.

#22,241 That · 449#36,303 Thadd · 219

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