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.

Thurma

#29,045 most common girls' name of all time · #46,969 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1915–1952

Rank among girls
#29,045
Rank overall
#46,969 of 105,966
First appeared
1915
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
67
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1952 #4,279
Best rank
#3,671 1934
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
19201940

Thurma first appears in 1915. 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
1952 8 — 8 #4,279
1944 5 — 5 #4,850
1939 5 — 5 #4,598
1936 5 — 5 #4,523
1934 7 — 7 #3,671
1930 5 — 5 #4,914
1928 5 — 5 #5,092
1924 5 — 5 #5,464
1922 5 — 5 #5,390
1921 6 — 6 #4,826
1920 5 — 5 #5,375
1915 6 — 6 #4,258