• Origin: English
• Gender: masculine

From the transferred use of the occupational English surname, this was used in reference to someone who thatched houses for a living.

Its use as a male given-name can be traced to the late 1800s but it did not appear in the U.S. Top 1000 until 2013, which is incidentally the same year former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher died. It may also have been popularized by the Grey’s Anatomy character, Thatcher Grey, also referred to as Thatch. It is also borne by American football player, Thatcher Szalay (b. 1978) and Canadian born American ice-hockey player, Thatcher Demko (born 1995).

As of 2022, it was the 963rd most popular male name in the United States.

Sources

• https://www.behindthename.com/name/thatcher
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thatcher#English
• https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/index.html
• https://www.familysearch.org
• https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname?surname=thatcher#:~:text=English%3A%20occupational%20name%20for%20a,’%20(Old%20English%20th%C3%A6ccan).
• https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=thatcher
• https://forebears.io/surnames/thatcher