Theodora

girls’ nameAt its peakCompare

Theodora is ranked 812th among girls in 2024 (343 births). Its best rank was 506th, in 1908.

Rank in 2024: #812down 36 from 2023
Births in 2024: 3430.02% of girls
Peak year: 2022426 births
Best rank: #506in 1908
Since 1880: 12,267people given the name

Babies named Theodora, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

12,267 girls have been named Theodora in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 426 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 2020s alone account for 15%. It has spent 79 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Theodora
1880s	107
1890s	220
1900s	342
1910s	994
1920s	1,597
1930s	1,099
1940s	1,411
1950s	1,041
1960s	715
1970s	436
1980s	428
1990s	457
2000s	447
2010s	1,126
2020s	1,847

In 2022, its biggest year

Theodora was the 688th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2022 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Sophia. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Theodora

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Teodora1,302 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.