Thedore
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Thedore has been given to 1,136 babies in the U.S. since 1902. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1929, with 34 recorded.
Babies named Thedore, 2022
1 in 564,000
Thedore over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Thedore?
Thedore had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 564,000
- 6 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 291,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,139 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Thedore sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thedore. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Thedores were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Thedore was born before 1934 — so the typical Thedore is around 91 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 21.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 0.53%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 288
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 21.3% of all recorded uses (242).
Is Thedore 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1929 (34)
- Years since peak
- 96
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.3% average annual change
Spellings of Thedore
Thedore is not the most common spelling — Theodore is, with 97.7% against Thedore's 0.35%.
Where Thedore is used
Across 1910–2025, Thedore was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 382,367 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 2Alabama1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Thedore has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Thedore by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Thedore
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Thedore
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.