Thurman
Thurman reached its high-water mark in 1920 at number 297, and has been recorded 16,397 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 5,600 Thurmans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Thurman boys named Thurman
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 16,397
- Estimated living today
- 5,600
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 297th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 16,392
How old the living Thurmans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 16,397 babies given the name since 1880, about 5,600 are alive — 34 in every hundred. Roughly 170 of them are children and 2,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 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 Thurmans
- Thurman Munson (1947–1979)American baseball player
People named Thurman with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Thurman is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Thurman is most concentrated in North Carolina (6.3×), Arkansas (6.0×), West Virginia (4.6×), Oklahoma (4.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular boys’ names the year Thurman peaked:
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Thurman 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.