# Theron (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/theron/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 13,000 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 12,960 / 40 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 29, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 5 | 5,694 |
| 1929 | 6 | 4,514 |
| 2001 | 5 | 17,757 |
| 2004 | 5 | 18,599 |
| 2005 | 6 | 16,284 |
| 2012 | 6 | 16,678 |
| 2018 | 7 | 13,682 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 87 | 1,715 |
| 2012 | 101 | 1,574 |
| 2013 | 86 | 1,723 |
| 2014 | 99 | 1,595 |
| 2015 | 100 | 1,612 |
| 2016 | 81 | 1,859 |
| 2017 | 89 | 1,745 |
| 2018 | 77 | 1,936 |
| 2019 | 67 | 2,148 |
| 2020 | 69 | 2,065 |
| 2021 | 56 | 2,435 |
| 2022 | 48 | 2,749 |
| 2023 | 42 | 2,999 |
| 2024 | 45 | 2,866 |
| 2025 | 55 | 2,474 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 2,863 |
| 2002 | 3 | 3,225 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3,467 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3,651 |
| 2008 | 7 | 2,507 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.