Thad
About 8,224 American babies have been named Thad since 1880, most of them around 1967. In 2025 it ranked 8,910th. About 5,600 Thads are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 54.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Thad boys named Thad
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,224
- Estimated living today
- 5,600
- Median age today
- 54
- Peak year
- 1967
- Best rank
- 401st
- Rank in 2025
- 8,910th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 8,219
How old the living Thads are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,224 babies given the name since 1880, about 5,600 are alive — 68 in every hundred. Roughly 300 of them are children and 920 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1971 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Thads
- Thad Cochran (1937–2019)United States Senator from Mississippi
- Thad Luckinbill (born 1975)American actor and film producer
- Thad Jones (1923–1986)American jazz trumpeter
People named Thad with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Thad is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Thad is most concentrated in South Dakota (4.1×), North Carolina (4.1×), Iowa (3.0×), Kansas (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1967
The most popular boys’ names the year Thad peaked:
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Thad against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.