Meaning not yet researched.
Theodora: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 384 in 2025. Its best rank was #506 in 1908.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #506 in 1908; #726 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Theodora in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#726 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1908, at #506.
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Theodora: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 384 girls in 2025. Peak: #506 in 1908 · most girls in one year: 426 (2022).
In 2025, 384 US girls were named Theodora, making it the 726th most common girls’ name of the year, up 85 places from #811 in 2024. That is 38 more than the 346 girls named Theodora in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #506, reached in 1908. The most girls given the name in a single year was 426, in 2022. For comparison, it was #2,315 in 2015 and #873 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Theodora in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 11 babies. In all, 12,703 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,234 babies named Theodora.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,922 US girls were named Theodora; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 426. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,186 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Theodora ranked highest in Maine in 2025, at #255 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dorothea (34,427 babies since 1880) and Theadora (1,507 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Thedora, Teadora and Tiodora are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Dora.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Thedora (103), Teadora (10), Tiodora (5).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 5 | #255 | — |
| Nebraska | 6 | #394 | — |
| Nevada | 7 | #431 | — |
| Connecticut | 7 | #453 | — |
| South Carolina | 11 | #466 | — |
| Michigan | 18 | #482 | — |
| Utah | 9 | #487 | — |
| Illinois | 20 | #512 | #1,624 |
| Ohio | 20 | #529 | — |
| Minnesota | 10 | #537 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #555 | #1,611 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #560 | #956 |
| New York | 28 | #608 | #1,281 |
| Missouri | 9 | #634 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #656 | — |
| Washington | 10 | #675 | — |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #693 | — |
| New Jersey | 11 | #713 | #1,165 |
| Florida | 20 | #823 | #2,059 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #826 | — |
| Texas | 34 | #877 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #900 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #985 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #1,022 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #1,026 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,117 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,173 | — |
| California | 22 | #1,183 | #2,298 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,348 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 384 | #726 | — | — |
| 2024 | 346 | #811 | — | — |
| 2023 | 363 | #778 | — | — |
| 2022 | 426 | #688 | — | — |
| 2021 | 387 | #738 | — | — |
| 2020 | 328 | #836 | — | — |
| 2019 | 314 | #853 | — | — |
| 2018 | 159 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 2017 | 107 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 2016 | 108 | #1,889 | — | — |
| 2015 | 81 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,233 | — | — |
| 2013 | 96 | #2,031 | — | — |
| 2012 | 68 | #2,651 | — | — |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,864 | — | — |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,467 | — | — |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,614 | — | — |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,930 | — | — |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,528 | — | — |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,365 | — | — |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,641 | — | — |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,440 | — | — |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,952 | — | — |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,098 | — | — |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,626 | — | — |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,163 | — | — |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,851 | — | — |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,649 | — | — |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,535 | — | — |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,582 | — | — |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,265 | — | — |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,867 | — | — |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,154 | — | — |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,955 | — | — |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,113 | — | — |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,171 | — | — |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,417 | — | — |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,528 | — | — |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,653 | — | — |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,387 | — | — |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,990 | — | — |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,796 | — | — |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,418 | — | — |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,096 | — | — |
| 1975 | 46 | #1,958 | — | — |
| 1974 | 50 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 1973 | 54 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1971 | 52 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,039 | — | — |
| 1969 | 56 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 1968 | 43 | #1,830 | — | — |
| 1967 | 69 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 1966 | 70 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1965 | 63 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1964 | 85 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1963 | 75 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1962 | 83 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 1961 | 88 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 1960 | 83 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 1959 | 110 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1958 | 90 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1957 | 85 | #1,151 | 6 | #3,953 |
| 1956 | 104 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1955 | 100 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1954 | 102 | #963 | — | — |
| 1953 | 117 | #870 | — | — |
| 1952 | 125 | #818 | — | — |
| 1951 | 104 | #889 | — | — |
| 1950 | 104 | #873 | — | — |
| 1949 | 134 | #740 | — | — |
| 1948 | 131 | #740 | — | — |
| 1947 | 143 | #710 | — | — |
| 1946 | 125 | #725 | — | — |
| 1945 | 142 | #608 | — | — |
| 1944 | 140 | #621 | — | — |
| 1943 | 141 | #640 | — | — |
| 1942 | 189 | #539 | — | — |
| 1941 | 140 | #596 | — | — |
| 1940 | 126 | #628 | — | — |
| 1939 | 131 | #588 | 7 | #3,083 |
| 1938 | 146 | #567 | — | — |
| 1937 | 167 | #509 | — | — |
| 1936 | 60 | #885 | — | — |
| 1935 | 86 | #728 | — | — |
| 1934 | 82 | #738 | 5 | #4,150 |
| 1933 | 90 | #687 | — | — |
| 1932 | 115 | #622 | — | — |
| 1931 | 108 | #641 | — | — |
| 1930 | 114 | #649 | — | — |
| 1929 | 141 | #577 | — | — |
| 1928 | 150 | #578 | 5 | #4,671 |
| 1927 | 156 | #573 | 6 | #4,165 |
| 1926 | 131 | #626 | 5 | #4,769 |
| 1925 | 153 | #583 | — | — |
| 1924 | 177 | #547 | — | — |
| 1923 | 158 | #571 | — | — |
| 1922 | 172 | #541 | — | — |
| 1921 | 184 | #522 | — | — |
| 1920 | 175 | #538 | 5 | #4,917 |
| 1919 | 133 | #611 | — | — |
| 1918 | 166 | #546 | — | — |
| 1917 | 129 | #601 | 5 | #4,519 |
| 1916 | 122 | #615 | — | — |
| 1915 | 129 | #568 | 5 | #4,331 |
| 1914 | 78 | #658 | — | — |
| 1913 | 87 | #548 | — | — |
| 1912 | 60 | #647 | — | — |
| 1911 | 50 | #608 | — | — |
| 1910 | 40 | #678 | — | — |
| 1909 | 42 | #606 | — | — |
| 1908 | 52 | #506 | — | — |
| 1907 | 37 | #623 | — | — |
| 1906 | 41 | #554 | — | — |
| 1905 | 40 | #554 | — | — |
| 1904 | 39 | #535 | — | — |
| 1903 | 24 | #690 | — | — |
| 1902 | 24 | #713 | — | — |
| 1901 | 19 | #766 | — | — |
| 1900 | 24 | #759 | — | — |
| 1899 | 16 | #831 | — | — |
| 1898 | 29 | #609 | — | — |
| 1897 | 20 | #713 | — | — |
| 1896 | 21 | #704 | — | — |
| 1895 | 28 | #576 | — | — |
| 1894 | 20 | #681 | — | — |
| 1893 | 15 | #789 | — | — |
| 1892 | 22 | #614 | — | — |
| 1891 | 23 | #556 | — | — |
| 1890 | 26 | #521 | — | — |
| 1889 | 18 | #617 | — | — |
| 1888 | 18 | #611 | — | — |
| 1887 | 12 | #689 | — | — |
| 1886 | 8 | #887 | — | — |
| 1885 | 18 | #518 | — | — |
| 1884 | 6 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1883 | 11 | #610 | — | — |
| 1881 | 5 | #932 | — | — |
| 1880 | 11 | #542 | — | — |
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).