Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Thien through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,084
- 1,055 boys · 29 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 42 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,848 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −39%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,848 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 39.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 42 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,150 as a first name in 2020; 736 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Thien’s family of names
In English usage, Thien as a surname has a related form in Tien.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Thien
- Tila TequilaAmerican television and social media personalityborn 1981
- Dương Trương Thiên LýVietnamese modelborn 1989
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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