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Teodora

#6,090 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Theodoros

Teodora has been given to 1,323 babies in the U.S. since 1893. In 2025 it ranked #6,090 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Teodora, 2025

1 in 166,000

Teodora over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Teodora: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Theodoros

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Teodora means

Teodora is a feminine form of Theodoros.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Teodora → Theodoros → Θεόδωρος → Θεόδωρος. The family’s meaning is “god + gift”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements θεός and δῶρον.

Origin, language, and formation

Teodora is used in Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Theodoros and Theodora.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Teodora is pronounced /te.oˈdɔ.ra/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,323 girls were recorded with the name Teodora between 1893 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1921; its best national rank was #1,364 in 1907.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,649 in 2020 to #6,090 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,794 in 2015 to #6,090 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Teodora?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,090
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Teodora sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Teodora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Teodoras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Teodora was born before 1958 — so the typical Teodora is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
710
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 14.4% of all recorded uses (190).

Is Teodora rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−320
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−441
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,704
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.0%
Peak was 1921 (23)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,364
1907

Spellings of Teodora

Teodora is not the most common spelling — Theodora is, with 39.8% against Teodora's 4.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Teodora is used

Across 1910–2025, Teodora was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 97,696 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Teodora has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Teodora around the world

Where Teodora ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2025
    #997
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2017–2017
    #432
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2002–2023
    #727
    in 2023
  • France
    1929–2025
    #1,793
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Teodora by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,090
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 441
Best rank ever
#1,364
1907
Peak year
1921
23 that year
First recorded
1893
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,323
Count in 2025
20

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