Thurmond · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Thurmond.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1909

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 80 recorded years as a table

Thurmond, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1909	30
1911	31
1913	16
1914	9
1915	16
1916	11
1917	14
1918	5
1919	14
1920	16
1921	15
1922	7
1923	14
1924	17
1925	11
1926	14
1927	18
1928	12
1929	10
1930	15
1931	14
1932	18
1933	11
1934	12
1935	14
1936	13
1937	13
1938	16
1939	11
1940	16
1941	12
1942	9
1943	9
1944	12
1945	10
1946	12
1947	11
1948	17
1949	15
1950	15
1951	15
1952	13
1953	11
1954	7
1955	11
1956	7
1957	6
1958	6
1959	3
1960	7
1961	5
1962	8
1963	7
1964	6
1965	5
1966	4
1967	4
1968	5
1969	4
1970	5
1971	6
1972	6
1973	6
1974	6
1975	4
1976	3
1977	4
1978	4
1980	4
1981	4
1982	3
1983	3
1984	4
1986	3
1987	3
1988	3
1989	4
1990	2
2000	3
2016	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Thurmond isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2016: 5
Rank in 2016: #12,185
How rare: 1 in 379,547 boys
Since 1909: 1,002

Thurmond was last recorded in 2016. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1911, at 31 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Thurmond doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.