Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Thales isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Thales through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 93
- 93 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 17 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 304 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Thales’s family of names
In English usage, Thales has a conventional equivalent in the Chinese form 泰勒斯.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Thales
- Thales LimaBrazilian association football playerborn 1989
- Thales LeitesBrazilian mixed martial artistborn 1981
- Thales HossBrazilian volleyball playerborn 1989
- Thales PaulaBrazilian association football playerborn 2001
- ThalesBrazilian footballerborn 1994
- Thales McReynoldsAmerican basketball player (1943–1988)
- Thales MonteiroBrazilian basketball player (1925–1993)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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