Gender:
Origin:
English
16 famous people named Thane found on Wikipedia.
2323 male in US.
Most recent ranking:
2602-th in year 2018
Best ranking:
1161-th in year 1963
Used in: English
Thane is a masculine given name and a surname.
Old English þegn "military follower, one who holds lands in exchange for military service," also "vassal, retainer, attendant," from Proto-Germanic *thegnas (source also of Old Saxon thegan "follower, warrior, boy," Old Norse þegn "thane, freeman," Old High German thegan, German Degen "thane, warrior, hero"), from PIE *tek-no- (source also of Sanskrit takman "descendant, child," Greek teknon "child"), from root *tek- "to beget, give birth to" (source also of Greek tekos "child, the young of animals," tokos "childbirth, offspring, produce of money, interest"). Also used in Old English for "disciple of Christ." Specific sense of "man who ranks between an earl and a freeman" is late 15c. The modern spelling is from Scottish, where early 13c. it came to mean "chief of a clan, king's baron," and it has predominated in English probably due to the influence of "Macbeth;" normal orthographic changes from Old English ðegn would have produced Modern English *thain. Some historians now use thegn to distinguish Anglo-Saxon thanes from Scottish thanes.
Freeman, landholder, warrior, landowner.
| Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thane Camus | 1970 | American television personality |
| 2 | Thane Bettany | 1929 | British actor and ballet dancer |
| 3 | Thane Maynard | American zoologist | |
| 4 | Thane Rosenbaum | 1960 | American novelist and jurist |
| 5 | Thane Baker | 1931 | American Sprinter |
| 6 | Elswyth Thane | 1900 | American writer |
| 7 | Pat Thane | ||
| 8 | Thane Gash | 1965 | American football player |
| 9 | Lucy Thane | American filmmaker | |
| 10 | Thane Campbell | 1895 | Canadian politician |
| 11 | Thane Gustafson | American professor of government and writer | |
| 12 | Amanda Thane | 1953 | Australian opera singer |
| 13 | Bartlett L. Thane | 1877 | American football player |
| 14 | Thane Houser | 1891 | American racing driver |
| 15 | Russell T. Thane | 1926 | American politician |
| 16 | Thorsten Thane | 1972 | German cinematographer and television director |