Thierry is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Thierry in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Thierry in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Thierry by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Thierry ranks at #4,175. That means there are 4,174 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Thierry.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Thierry. Boys named Thierry have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,992 Thierry ranked higher than ever in 1965. By comparison, there have been 83 years in which the first name Thierry has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1998. In general, parents name their sons Thierry only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Thierry was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Thierry continues to be a precious jewel: 27 newborns were named Thierry that year, ranking #3,477 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Thierry, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Thierry is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 104 Americans in total bear this name. And these 104 men are located in only four states: California, Florida, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Thierry and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Thierry in relation to it’s male population is Florida. And yet even there, only one in 205,361 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Thierry present.
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 seven letters, the name Thierry has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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 Thierry 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 Thierry, you can simply say:
Tiger
Hat
Igloo
Elephant
Rocket
Rocket
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Thierry
Thierry
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Thierry sounds like this: