Therman
Masculine · “Thor's man”
The first syllable of this name is a god. The Thur- in Thurman and Thurston and Thorburn is Thor, and the names are compounds built on him — which makes them among the very few Norse religious names to have survived a thousand years of Christianity without anybody objecting.
How old is the name Therman?
Therman first appears in US birth records in 1905 — 120 years ago. The typical Therman alive today was born around 1939, making them about 86 years old. About 700 people named Therman are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Therman most popular?
Therman peaked in 1919, reaching #959 nationally. See the whole 1919 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Thormundr to Therman
The story of Therman
The god is also in the calendar, along with three of his colleagues. Four English weekdays carry Germanic gods — Tuesday belongs to a war god, Wednesday to Woden, Thursday to Thor and Friday to Frigg — and Saturday alone kept the Roman one it was translated from. Sunday and Monday are the sun and the moon, as they are in most of Europe. So the English week is a compromise document: a Roman scheme with the planetary gods swapped out for their nearest Germanic equivalents, except for Saturn, whom nobody could match.
Meaning
Thor's man, or Thor's protection
The first element is the god's name and the second is the ordinary word for a man or a servant. Names of this kind were common in Scandinavia and traveled to England with Norse settlement.
How the name formed
- Thormundr
- Thurman
- Therman
Pronouncing Therman
THUR-mun
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The e and the u are said identically here, so the spelling difference is entirely visual.
Nicknames for Therman
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1905
- Most boys named
- 191949 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #959reached in 1919
- Change vs 1996
- 0.0%5 in 2007, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Thermans among us
people named Therman are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Therman sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It carries a genuinely ancient religious element rather than a vague one.
- The spelling gives no trouble once the stress is placed.
- It is genuinely rare with no competing modern associations.
- Thurman is the commoner spelling and this one gets corrected.
- The generation that used it is now very old.
- The first syllable collides with a scientific prefix in writing.
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Frequently asked
- How many Thermans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Therman are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Therman in 2025?
- Therman is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Therman with classmates?
- Therman will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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