Meaning not yet researched.
Theron: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 55 in 2025. Its best rank was #452 in 1915.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #452 in 1915; #2,474 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Theron in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,474 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1915, at #452.
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Theron: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 55 boys in 2025. Peak: #452 in 1915 · most boys in one year: 180 (1966).
In 2025, 55 US boys were named Theron, making it the 2,474th most common boys’ name of the year, up 392 places from #2,866 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 45 boys named Theron in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #452, reached in 1915. The most boys given the name in a single year was 180, in 1966. For comparison, it was #1,612 in 2015 and #700 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Theron in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 7 babies. In all, 13,000 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,483 babies named Theron.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 629 US boys were named Theron; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 89. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,056 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Theron ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,525 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Tyron (7,686 babies since 1880), Terron (2,526 babies since 1880) and Teryn (1,634 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Teran, Terin and Theran are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Teran (540), Terin (524), Theran (266), Therron (241), Terion (219), Teren (179), Theoren (110), Therin (95), Theryn (59), Tehron (33), Thearon (31), Tieran (28), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Theron in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 5 | #1,525 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 55 | #2,474 |
| 2024 | — | — | 45 | #2,866 |
| 2023 | — | — | 42 | #2,999 |
| 2022 | — | — | 48 | #2,749 |
| 2021 | — | — | 56 | #2,435 |
| 2020 | — | — | 69 | #2,065 |
| 2019 | — | — | 67 | #2,148 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,682 | 77 | #1,936 |
| 2017 | — | — | 89 | #1,745 |
| 2016 | — | — | 81 | #1,859 |
| 2015 | — | — | 100 | #1,612 |
| 2014 | — | — | 99 | #1,595 |
| 2013 | — | — | 86 | #1,723 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,678 | 101 | #1,574 |
| 2011 | — | — | 87 | #1,715 |
| 2010 | — | — | 96 | #1,636 |
| 2009 | — | — | 97 | #1,636 |
| 2008 | — | — | 96 | #1,631 |
| 2007 | — | — | 105 | #1,514 |
| 2006 | — | — | 134 | #1,254 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,284 | 113 | #1,342 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,599 | 112 | #1,325 |
| 2003 | — | — | 97 | #1,390 |
| 2002 | — | — | 101 | #1,324 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,757 | 98 | #1,336 |
| 2000 | — | — | 108 | #1,240 |
| 1999 | — | — | 90 | #1,340 |
| 1998 | — | — | 101 | #1,222 |
| 1997 | — | — | 92 | #1,261 |
| 1996 | — | — | 99 | #1,176 |
| 1995 | — | — | 106 | #1,106 |
| 1994 | — | — | 113 | #1,052 |
| 1993 | — | — | 101 | #1,128 |
| 1992 | — | — | 119 | #996 |
| 1991 | — | — | 100 | #1,093 |
| 1990 | — | — | 109 | #1,020 |
| 1989 | — | — | 116 | #950 |
| 1988 | — | — | 115 | #895 |
| 1987 | — | — | 107 | #913 |
| 1986 | — | — | 102 | #911 |
| 1985 | — | — | 94 | #944 |
| 1984 | — | — | 96 | #898 |
| 1983 | — | — | 123 | #789 |
| 1982 | — | — | 101 | #892 |
| 1981 | — | — | 111 | #836 |
| 1980 | — | — | 118 | #813 |
| 1979 | — | — | 134 | #750 |
| 1978 | — | — | 130 | #746 |
| 1977 | — | — | 148 | #700 |
| 1976 | — | — | 126 | #743 |
| 1975 | — | — | 147 | #681 |
| 1974 | — | — | 160 | #638 |
| 1973 | — | — | 172 | #604 |
| 1972 | — | — | 158 | #628 |
| 1971 | — | — | 153 | #671 |
| 1970 | — | — | 152 | #666 |
| 1969 | — | — | 159 | #627 |
| 1968 | — | — | 162 | #597 |
| 1967 | — | — | 163 | #592 |
| 1966 | — | — | 180 | #566 |
| 1965 | — | — | 96 | #754 |
| 1964 | — | — | 137 | #663 |
| 1963 | — | — | 125 | #693 |
| 1962 | — | — | 147 | #641 |
| 1961 | — | — | 143 | #658 |
| 1960 | — | — | 171 | #604 |
| 1959 | — | — | 87 | #823 |
| 1958 | — | — | 97 | #754 |
| 1957 | — | — | 109 | #718 |
| 1956 | — | — | 87 | #803 |
| 1955 | — | — | 77 | #843 |
| 1954 | — | — | 89 | #757 |
| 1953 | — | — | 100 | #716 |
| 1952 | — | — | 88 | #754 |
| 1951 | — | — | 91 | #731 |
| 1950 | — | — | 97 | #700 |
| 1949 | — | — | 104 | #675 |
| 1948 | — | — | 97 | #682 |
| 1947 | — | — | 103 | #683 |
| 1946 | — | — | 108 | #620 |
| 1945 | — | — | 113 | #570 |
| 1944 | — | — | 103 | #611 |
| 1943 | — | — | 113 | #596 |
| 1942 | — | — | 121 | #560 |
| 1941 | — | — | 117 | #556 |
| 1940 | — | — | 91 | #625 |
| 1939 | — | — | 111 | #546 |
| 1938 | — | — | 95 | #612 |
| 1937 | — | — | 93 | #604 |
| 1936 | — | — | 96 | #594 |
| 1935 | — | — | 85 | #646 |
| 1934 | — | — | 107 | #573 |
| 1933 | — | — | 95 | #599 |
| 1932 | — | — | 106 | #578 |
| 1931 | — | — | 118 | #538 |
| 1930 | — | — | 109 | #575 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,514 | 95 | #629 |
| 1928 | — | — | 113 | #583 |
| 1927 | — | — | 94 | #658 |
| 1926 | — | — | 118 | #571 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,694 | 118 | #576 |
| 1924 | — | — | 153 | #505 |
| 1923 | — | — | 123 | #563 |
| 1922 | — | — | 144 | #516 |
| 1921 | — | — | 151 | #504 |
| 1920 | — | — | 146 | #501 |
| 1919 | — | — | 150 | #489 |
| 1918 | — | — | 138 | #511 |
| 1917 | — | — | 135 | #495 |
| 1916 | — | — | 118 | #527 |
| 1915 | — | — | 148 | #452 |
| 1914 | — | — | 113 | #452 |
| 1913 | — | — | 78 | #497 |
| 1912 | — | — | 76 | #455 |
| 1911 | — | — | 38 | #480 |
| 1910 | — | — | 38 | #452 |
| 1909 | — | — | 30 | #471 |
| 1908 | — | — | 26 | #498 |
| 1907 | — | — | 15 | #697 |
| 1906 | — | — | 22 | #487 |
| 1905 | — | — | 11 | #784 |
| 1904 | — | — | 14 | #641 |
| 1903 | — | — | 19 | #502 |
| 1902 | — | — | 12 | #682 |
| 1901 | — | — | 10 | #724 |
| 1900 | — | — | 8 | #1,044 |
| 1899 | — | — | 10 | #710 |
| 1898 | — | — | 16 | #538 |
| 1897 | — | — | 16 | #513 |
| 1896 | — | — | 6 | #1,094 |
| 1895 | — | — | 11 | #677 |
| 1894 | — | — | 15 | #537 |
| 1893 | — | — | 8 | #828 |
| 1892 | — | — | 8 | #857 |
| 1891 | — | — | 6 | #951 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,148 |
| 1889 | — | — | 11 | #623 |
| 1888 | — | — | 8 | #810 |
| 1887 | — | — | 8 | #741 |
| 1884 | — | — | 8 | #750 |
| 1883 | — | — | 11 | #591 |
| 1882 | — | — | 10 | #648 |
| 1880 | — | — | 7 | #799 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).