Thelma
Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation2025 rank
#4,745
down −369 places
2025 births
29
down −4 births
All-time births
225,460
0% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1921
- 7,839 births
- Best rank
- #25
- in 1910
- First recorded
- 1880
- #936 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1927
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 143 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19217,839#30Peak
- 19207,814#31
- 19187,740#32
- 19197,558#31
- 19237,379#31
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #25 in 1910 · peak births 7,839 in 1921
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 1% boys■ 99% girls
1,142 boys · 225,460 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Thelma has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.