Names / Boy names
Thunder
Current rank
#5,368
holding steady
All-time peak
#3,695
in 2018
First recorded
1975
in U.S. data
Children named
562
since 1975
Popularity over time
Annual U.S. children given the name · Peak #3,695 in 2018 · Source: Social Security Administration
Meaning & background
(VEL-vit THUN-der): A lot, but in a fun way. Stateside, it was first recorded in 1975. It now sits outside the national top 1,000, which keeps it uncommon. Only about 562 children have carried it, making it genuinely rare.