Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Thelma

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Thelma
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 99.6% from peak

Peak era

1921

Peak rank proxy

7,839

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19212024

Peak year

1921

Decline from peak

99.6%

2024

All-time

225,429

Thelma once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1921, when 7,839 girls were named Thelma.

In 2024, only 32 girls were given the name.

Down 99.6% from its peak.

All told, about 225,429 Americans have been named Thelma and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.6% from peak

19217,839 girls named Thelma

202432 girls named Thelma

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