Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Thiago yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Thiago posted the biggest percentage jump of any name across all four batches so far: 564%, taking it from a near-nonexistent presence to 5,289 births in 2024, with its rank hitting a fresh best, #55, the same year.
Much of that is a base-rate effect — the name's total births since it first entered the data, in 1986, run to just 29,375, the smallest total of any name covered in this batch, well below every other entry here, and its history spans only five decades rather than the thirteen or fourteen most other names in this range carry.
The famous-bearer list here is unusually uniform: five professional footballers, all Brazilian, all born within a decade of each other — Thiago Silva, Thiago Alcântara, Thiago Motta, Thiago Neves, Thiago Cionek — a namesake cluster with no equivalent elsewhere in this batch.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 6 | #6,653 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,924 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,141 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,559 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,644 |
| 1991 | 11 | #5,062 |
| 1992 | 9 | #6,085 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,963 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,268 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,719 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,497 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,211 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,786 |
| 1999 | 14 | #5,007 |
| 2000 | 20 | #4,052 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,608 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,876 |
| 2003 | 61 | #1,933 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,146 |
| 2005 | 44 | #2,561 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,148 |
| 2007 | 73 | #1,945 |
| 2008 | 112 | #1,477 |
| 2009 | 160 | #1,146 |
| 2010 | 181 | #1,066 |
| 2011 | 188 | #1,021 |
| 2012 | 246 | #860 |
| 2013 | 561 | #489 |
| 2014 | 797 | #391 |
| 2015 | 1,032 | #334 |
| 2016 | 1,370 | #268 |
| 2017 | 1,766 | #217 |
| 2018 | 2,023 | #200 |
| 2019 | 2,133 | #184 |
| 2020 | 2,305 | #168 |
| 2021 | 2,713 | #141 |
| 2022 | 3,464 | #108 |
| 2023 | 4,515 | #72 |
| 2024 | 5,289 | #55 |
