Meaning not yet researched.
Theia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 97 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,813 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,813 in 2019; #1,989 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Theia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,989 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #1,813.
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Theia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 97 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,813 in 2019 · most girls in one year: 113 (2019).
In 2025, 97 US girls were named Theia, making it the 1,989th most common girls’ name of the year, down 150 places from #1,839 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 110 girls named Theia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,813, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 113. For comparison, it was #2,428 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Theia in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 6 babies. In all, 1,217 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 607 babies named Theia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,004 US girls were named Theia; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 113. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,570 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Theia ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #826 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Theo (39,333 babies since 1880), Tia (33,896 babies since 1880), Thea (20,118 babies since 1880) and Tea (2,493 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Theia 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 6 | #826 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #984 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,869 | #2,058 |
| California | 8 | #2,471 | #3,362 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 97 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 2024 | 110 | #1,839 | — | — |
| 2023 | 98 | #2,016 | — | — |
| 2022 | 91 | #2,122 | — | — |
| 2021 | 99 | #1,979 | — | — |
| 2020 | 77 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 2019 | 113 | #1,813 | — | — |
| 2018 | 109 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 2017 | 112 | #1,841 | — | — |
| 2016 | 98 | #2,031 | — | — |
| 2015 | 76 | #2,428 | — | — |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,710 | — | — |
| 2013 | 18 | #7,008 | — | — |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,593 | — | — |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,403 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,352 | — | — |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,363 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,327 | — | — |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,468 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,252 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,681 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,738 | — | — |
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).