How Many People Are Named Thurmond?
people named Thurmond are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 749,528 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,002 babies named Thurmond in Social Security records from 1909 to 2016, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
30 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Thurmond in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Thurmond alive today is about 64 years old, and 64% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 53 and 75 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Thurmond first appears in the records in 1909 and was given most often in 1948, to 30 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2016.
Babies given the name each year, 1909 to 2016
🏆 Rank History
Thurmond has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,344, in 1948.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,344 (1948) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,795 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Thurmond alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Thurmond were born in South Carolina than in any other state: about 57 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Thurmond was given about 29.2 times as often in South Carolina.
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