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Thanna vs Thatcher

American parents have registered 4,967 Thatchers since 1880, against 22 Thannas. Thatcher is still ahead, with 194 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Thanna against Thatcher, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Thanna Thatcher

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 60 years in which either name was published, Thatcher for 58 years and Thanna for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Thanna Thatcher
Total US births 224,967
Most in one year 17297
Babies in 2025 under 5194
Estimated living today 104,900
Median age today 869
Peak year 19392021
Best rank 1,947th girls815th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,108th
First recorded 19391965
Girls / boys 22 / 012 / 4,955

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Thannas alive today are over 86; half the Thatchers are over 9. That is 77 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Thanna and Thatcher.