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NAMES LIKE THELMA
Same rise and fall as Thelma, around the same years.
WHERE THELMA IS POPULAR · 2024
Fewer than 5 babies were named Thelma in any single state in 2024, so no state lists it.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Thelma name popularity
Thelma has been given to 226,602 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 1921, when 7,871 babies got the name, and its best rank was #35 in 1909.
In 2025, 29 babies were named Thelma (#8,077 in the country), 99.6% below the peak. That is up 7% from 2015.
Almost every Thelma is a girl.
An estimated 40K people named Thelma are alive in the US today, with a median age of 78.
It was a top-100 name in 33 of the 146 years on record.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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