Meaning not yet researched.
Thor: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #883 in 1968.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #883 in 1968; #2,875 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Thor in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,875 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1968, at #883.
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Thor: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 boys in 2025. Peak: #883 in 1968 · most boys in one year: 118 (2015).
In 2025, 44 US boys were named Thor, making it the 2,875th most common boys’ name of the year, down 50 places from #2,825 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 46 boys named Thor in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #883, reached in 1968. The most boys given the name in a single year was 118, in 2015. For comparison, it was #1,442 in 2015 and #2,194 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Thor in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1904 with 5 babies. In all, 4,857 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,026 babies named Thor.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 805 US boys were named Thor; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 106. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,820 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Thor ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,970 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Thorin (2,301 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tor, Thorn and Thorsten 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: Tor (886), Thorn (313), Thorsten (233), Tore (92), Thure (18), Torr (13).
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 Thor 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #1,970 | #1,625 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 44 | #2,875 |
| 2024 | — | — | 46 | #2,825 |
| 2023 | — | — | 71 | #2,094 |
| 2022 | — | — | 81 | #1,936 |
| 2021 | — | — | 87 | #1,814 |
| 2020 | — | — | 86 | #1,776 |
| 2019 | — | — | 95 | #1,686 |
| 2018 | — | — | 106 | #1,583 |
| 2017 | — | — | 99 | #1,621 |
| 2016 | — | — | 90 | #1,737 |
| 2015 | — | — | 118 | #1,442 |
| 2014 | — | — | 115 | #1,441 |
| 2013 | — | — | 94 | #1,633 |
| 2012 | — | — | 104 | #1,541 |
| 2011 | — | — | 107 | #1,509 |
| 2010 | — | — | 98 | #1,609 |
| 2009 | — | — | 77 | #1,885 |
| 2008 | — | — | 103 | #1,561 |
| 2007 | — | — | 73 | #1,946 |
| 2006 | — | — | 74 | #1,855 |
| 2005 | — | — | 75 | #1,770 |
| 2004 | — | — | 57 | #2,098 |
| 2003 | — | — | 71 | #1,735 |
| 2002 | — | — | 57 | #1,969 |
| 2001 | — | — | 62 | #1,814 |
| 2000 | — | — | 50 | #2,045 |
| 1999 | — | — | 49 | #1,993 |
| 1998 | — | — | 45 | #2,092 |
| 1997 | — | — | 50 | #1,882 |
| 1996 | — | — | 48 | #1,901 |
| 1995 | — | — | 45 | #1,910 |
| 1994 | — | — | 51 | #1,751 |
| 1993 | — | — | 45 | #1,871 |
| 1992 | — | — | 61 | #1,502 |
| 1991 | — | — | 48 | #1,720 |
| 1990 | — | — | 56 | #1,527 |
| 1989 | — | — | 53 | #1,547 |
| 1988 | — | — | 48 | #1,551 |
| 1987 | — | — | 55 | #1,363 |
| 1986 | — | — | 49 | #1,435 |
| 1985 | — | — | 38 | #1,666 |
| 1984 | — | — | 45 | #1,442 |
| 1983 | — | — | 41 | #1,512 |
| 1982 | — | — | 41 | #1,537 |
| 1981 | — | — | 40 | #1,543 |
| 1980 | — | — | 59 | #1,201 |
| 1979 | — | — | 52 | #1,288 |
| 1978 | — | — | 46 | #1,369 |
| 1977 | — | — | 37 | #1,543 |
| 1976 | — | — | 37 | #1,497 |
| 1975 | — | — | 46 | #1,278 |
| 1974 | — | — | 51 | #1,170 |
| 1973 | — | — | 59 | #1,065 |
| 1972 | — | — | 64 | #1,013 |
| 1971 | — | — | 81 | #909 |
| 1970 | — | — | 65 | #1,014 |
| 1969 | — | — | 65 | #958 |
| 1968 | — | — | 67 | #883 |
| 1967 | — | — | 47 | #1,085 |
| 1966 | — | — | 67 | #887 |
| 1965 | — | — | 59 | #965 |
| 1964 | — | — | 56 | #1,014 |
| 1963 | — | — | 50 | #1,090 |
| 1962 | — | — | 52 | #1,068 |
| 1961 | — | — | 64 | #966 |
| 1960 | — | — | 41 | #1,239 |
| 1959 | — | — | 28 | #1,521 |
| 1958 | — | — | 23 | #1,674 |
| 1957 | — | — | 20 | #1,830 |
| 1956 | — | — | 27 | #1,530 |
| 1955 | — | — | 32 | #1,367 |
| 1954 | — | — | 14 | #2,203 |
| 1953 | — | — | 17 | #1,950 |
| 1952 | — | — | 21 | #1,697 |
| 1951 | — | — | 13 | #2,237 |
| 1950 | — | — | 13 | #2,194 |
| 1949 | — | — | 18 | #1,815 |
| 1948 | — | — | 14 | #2,109 |
| 1947 | — | — | 19 | #1,784 |
| 1946 | — | — | 11 | #2,392 |
| 1945 | — | — | 11 | #2,234 |
| 1944 | — | — | 15 | #1,883 |
| 1943 | — | — | 14 | #2,064 |
| 1942 | — | — | 14 | #2,035 |
| 1941 | — | — | 15 | #1,892 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,432 |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,808 |
| 1938 | — | — | 12 | #2,174 |
| 1937 | — | — | 9 | #2,660 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,511 |
| 1935 | — | — | 10 | #2,516 |
| 1934 | — | — | 11 | #2,380 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #4,106 |
| 1932 | — | — | 12 | #2,308 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,634 |
| 1930 | — | — | 8 | #3,264 |
| 1929 | — | — | 13 | #2,311 |
| 1928 | — | — | 15 | #2,151 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,741 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #3,121 |
| 1925 | — | — | 16 | #2,080 |
| 1924 | — | — | 13 | #2,456 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,437 |
| 1922 | — | — | 11 | #2,781 |
| 1921 | — | — | 11 | #2,786 |
| 1920 | — | — | 16 | #2,120 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #3,098 |
| 1918 | — | — | 12 | #2,523 |
| 1917 | — | — | 15 | #2,083 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,716 |
| 1915 | — | — | 13 | #2,169 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | #2,090 |
| 1913 | — | — | 9 | #2,077 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,248 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,382 |
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).