Thorn is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Thorn has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Thorn. That means that a boy named Thorn is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life.
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 be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Thorn. Boys named Thorn have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,802 Thorn ranked higher than ever before in 1988. By comparison, there have been 107 years in which the first name Thorn 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 2010. In general, parents name their sons Thorn only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Thorn was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Thorn continues to be a precious jewel: 5 newborns were named Thorn that year, ranking #10,408 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Thorn, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
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 Thorn 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 Thorn 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 Thorn, you can simply say:
Tiger
Hat
Orange
Rocket
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Thorn
Thorn
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
H
O
R
N
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
O
R
N
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. Thorn sounds like this:
