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Worldwide, Thorne (Thorne , Торн , 손 ) is a rare primarily boy's, but scarcely girly first name. The first name Thorne is characteristic of Jamaica, where it is a rare masculine name, the United States, where it is a very rare principally male, but very infrequently female name, and South Africa. Measured by absolute frequency, the name is most common in the United States, India, and South Africa. Predominantly, Thorne is the last name as well as the forename.
Thorne is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Thorne Forrester , the soap opera character, The Bold and the Beautiful and Thorne , the fictional vampire in Ann Rice's novel series The Vampire Chronicles.