Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Thoma**

#15,692 most common boys' name of all time · #40,819 across all names · 80% male / 20% female · used 1944–1990 · genuinely unisex

Rank among boys
#15,692
Rank overall
#40,819 of 105,966
First appeared
1944
Years on the list
16 of 146
All-time
98
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1956 #3,844
Best rank
#3,417 1970
Girls Boys peak 11/yr
19601980

Thoma first appears in 1944. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1990 — 5 5 #8,478
1988 — 7 7 #5,967
1987 — 6 6 #6,371
1984 — 5 5 #6,627
1973 — 6 6 #4,792
1970 — 9 9 #3,417
1968 — 6 6 #3,962
1967 — 5 5 #4,325
1964 — 5 5 #4,412
1961 5 — 5 —
1960 — 7 7 #3,592
1958 5 — 5 —
1957 — 6 6 #3,894
1956 5 6 11 #3,844
1951 — 5 5 #4,157
1944 5 — 5 —