Meaning not yet researched.
Thea: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 867 in 2025. Its best rank was #268 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #268 in 2017; #353 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Thea in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#353 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #268.
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Thea: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 867 girls in 2025. Peak: #268 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 1,209 (2018).
In 2025, 867 US girls were named Thea, making it the 353rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 4 places from #349 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 897 girls named Thea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #268, reached in 2017. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,209, in 2018. For comparison, it was #464 in 2015 and #996 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Thea in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 20,118 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,408 babies named Thea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,573 US girls were named Thea; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 1,209. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,854 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Thea ranked highest in Nebraska in 2025, at #131 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Tea (2,493 babies since 1880), Theo (39,333 babies since 1880), Tia (33,896 babies since 1880) and Tye (5,580 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Teeya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Teeya (32).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Thea in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 18 | #131 | #198 |
| District of Columbia | 6 | #146 | — |
| Minnesota | 33 | #165 | #255 |
| Maine | 7 | #174 | #262 |
| North Dakota | 6 | #193 | — |
| Wisconsin | 27 | #211 | #418 |
| Virginia | 37 | #223 | #585 |
| Ohio | 51 | #227 | #350 |
| Illinois | 44 | #238 | #506 |
| Utah | 20 | #238 | #248 |
| Washington | 30 | #245 | #239 |
| Iowa | 15 | #247 | #174 |
| Indiana | 29 | #251 | #290 |
| Montana | 5 | #256 | — |
| Massachusetts | 23 | #262 | #415 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #268 | — |
| Michigan | 32 | #283 | #523 |
| Kansas | 12 | #283 | #294 |
| Connecticut | 11 | #294 | #442 |
| Kentucky | 15 | #305 | #626 |
| Idaho | 8 | #306 | #213 |
| Missouri | 20 | #309 | #311 |
| Colorado | 20 | #316 | #307 |
| New York | 49 | #349 | #471 |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | #359 | #463 |
| Tennessee | 23 | #362 | #739 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #368 | — |
| New Jersey | 21 | #388 | #470 |
| Alabama | 12 | #433 | — |
| North Carolina | 24 | #470 | #563 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #474 | #581 |
| Florida | 34 | #541 | #661 |
| Oregon | 7 | #544 | #460 |
| California | 58 | #563 | #562 |
| Arizona | 12 | #575 | #387 |
| Georgia | 19 | #580 | #616 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #617 | #659 |
| Maryland | 7 | #721 | #1,036 |
| Texas | 40 | #760 | #739 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #907 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 867 | #353 | — | — |
| 2024 | 897 | #349 | — | — |
| 2023 | 974 | #321 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,066 | #300 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,033 | #314 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,071 | #303 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,142 | #293 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,209 | #273 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,193 | #268 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,121 | #291 | — | — |
| 2015 | 688 | #464 | — | — |
| 2014 | 364 | #771 | — | — |
| 2013 | 213 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 2012 | 187 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 2011 | 146 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 2010 | 145 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 2009 | 161 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 2008 | 148 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 2007 | 132 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 2006 | 133 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 2005 | 130 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 2004 | 150 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 2003 | 149 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 2002 | 124 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 2001 | 124 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 2000 | 111 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 1999 | 90 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 1998 | 75 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 1997 | 88 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 1996 | 97 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1995 | 67 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 1994 | 61 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 1993 | 112 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1992 | 98 | #1,587 | — | — |
| 1991 | 126 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1990 | 138 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1989 | 126 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1988 | 104 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 1986 | 78 | #1,561 | — | — |
| 1985 | 81 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 1984 | 92 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1983 | 78 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 1982 | 123 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1981 | 133 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 1980 | 132 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1979 | 114 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1978 | 114 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1977 | 101 | #1,213 | — | — |
| 1976 | 97 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1975 | 94 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1974 | 103 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1973 | 85 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 1972 | 87 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1971 | 112 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1970 | 101 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1969 | 95 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1968 | 103 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1967 | 96 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 1966 | 101 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1965 | 119 | #938 | — | — |
| 1964 | 119 | #976 | — | — |
| 1963 | 117 | #989 | — | — |
| 1962 | 129 | #938 | — | — |
| 1961 | 114 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1960 | 106 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1959 | 108 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 1958 | 99 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1957 | 124 | #923 | — | — |
| 1956 | 93 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 1955 | 135 | #838 | — | — |
| 1954 | 98 | #990 | — | — |
| 1953 | 98 | #966 | — | — |
| 1952 | 102 | #920 | — | — |
| 1951 | 85 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1950 | 85 | #996 | — | — |
| 1949 | 50 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1948 | 56 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 1947 | 51 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 1946 | 53 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 1945 | 32 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 1944 | 32 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1943 | 39 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 1941 | 45 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 1940 | 39 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,993 | — | — |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,848 | — | — |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,814 | — | — |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 1928 | 37 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1927 | 40 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,112 | — | — |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,762 | 5 | #4,891 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,357 | — | — |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,617 | — | — |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,249 | — | — |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,503 | — | — |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,953 | — | — |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,594 | — | — |
| 1912 | 20 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 1902 | 14 | #965 | — | — |
| 1901 | 15 | #878 | — | — |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1897 | 11 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1896 | 11 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 1895 | 26 | #606 | — | — |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1892 | 12 | #903 | — | — |
| 1891 | 9 | #998 | — | — |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,087 | — | — |
| 1889 | 13 | #752 | — | — |
| 1888 | 14 | #719 | — | — |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1886 | 10 | #774 | — | — |
| 1885 | 9 | #789 | — | — |
| 1884 | 10 | #724 | — | — |
| 1883 | 6 | #914 | — | — |
| 1882 | 7 | #805 | — | — |
| 1881 | 5 | #931 | — | — |
| 1880 | 6 | #827 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).