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Thais vs Thanna

American parents have registered 2,225 Thaises since 1880, against 22 Thannas. Thais is still ahead, with 26 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Thais against Thanna, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Thais Thanna

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 117 years in which either name was published, Thais for 116 years and Thanna for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Thais Thanna
Total US births 2,22522
Most in one year 8417
Babies in 2025 26under 5
Estimated living today 1,60010
Median age today 2586
Peak year 20011939
Best rank 2,013th girls1,947th girls
Rank in 2025 4,987thunranked
First recorded 19091939
Girls / boys 2,225 / 022 / 0

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 Thaises are over 25. That is 61 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: Thais and Thanna.