Thunder
Thunder reached its high-water mark in 2018 at number 3,607, and has been recorded 562 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 5,208th. About 550 Thunders are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Thunder
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 562
- Estimated living today
- 550
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2018
- Best rank
- 3,607th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,208th
- First recorded
- 1975
How old the living Thunders are
born that year still alive today
Of the 562 babies given the name since 1975, about 550 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 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 Thunders
- Thunder (born 1990)South Korean singer; member of MBLAQ
People named Thunder with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Thunder is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2018
The most popular boys’ names the year Thunder peaked:
Related names
Thunder 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.