Thane is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Thane is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Thane. In the SmartGenius ranking, Thane is #2,315 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Thane.
While Thane is not one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to have attracted parents especially more than 50 years ago in the last century. In 1962, the name Thane reached its highest popularity with #1,009 in our ranking of all male first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their son Thane. Perhaps it was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and boys in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Thane.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Thane was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 42 babies were born with the name Thane. This puts the name in rank 2,611 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 3,843,476 newborns was named Thane that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Thane has been and remains marvelously unusual!
The odds of having a man or boy named Thane in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Thane is registered in 11 states, among which are Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho or Montana. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Thane live in Montana, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 105,144 men and boys in Montana for their name before you meet one who answers with Thane.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names. That’s because 6.3% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Thane is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all boys' names that begin with the letter T, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Thomas is the boys’ name starting with T, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Thane and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Thane, you can simply say:
Tiger
Hat
Apple
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Thane
Thane
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
H
A
N
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
H
A
N
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Thane sounds like this:
