# Thurman (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/thurman/  
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 | 16,397 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 16,392 / 5 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1928 | 5 | 5,361 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 13 | 6,664 |
| 2011 | 10 | 8,006 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8,795 |
| 2013 | 8 | 9,574 |
| 2014 | 7 | 10,606 |
| 2015 | 11 | 7,452 |
| 2016 | 18 | 5,294 |
| 2017 | 7 | 10,662 |
| 2018 | 9 | 8,753 |
| 2019 | 9 | 8,812 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8,660 |
| 2021 | 8 | 9,607 |
| 2022 | 5 | 14,125 |
| 2023 | 11 | 7,683 |
| 2024 | 5 | 14,043 |

## People named Thurman

- Thurman Munson, American baseball player (1947–1979)
- Thurman Thomas, All-American college football player, professional football player, running back, College 
- Long John Hunter, American Texas blues guitarist (1931–2016)

## 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.