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Theia

#1,989 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly goddess

Theia has been given to 1,217 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #1,989 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 113 recorded.

Babies named Theia, 2025

1 in 34,200

Theia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Theia: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly goddess

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Theia means

Theia may mean “goddess”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,217 girls were recorded with the name Theia between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 113 in 2019; its best national rank was #1,813 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,315 in 2020 to #1,989 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,428 in 2015 to #1,989 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.

How common is Theia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 34,200
97 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,989
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,691 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Theia 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,691 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Theia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Theias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Theia was born before 2019 — so the typical Theia is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,217
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 49.9% of all recorded uses (607).

Is Theia 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
−150
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+326
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+439
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.28×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.8%
Peak was 2019 (113)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,813
2019

Spellings of Theia

Theia is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 26.3% against Theia's 0.13%.

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 Theia is used

Across 2016–2025, Theia was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 24,860 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 10,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 12,500
  3. 3California1 in 20,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in 20,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 20,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 20,000
  7. 7Oregon1 in 20,000
  8. 8New York1 in 25,000

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.

Theia around the world

Where Theia 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
    2006–2025
    #763
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2020–2023
    #391
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2015–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2025
    #2,960
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Theia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,989
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 326
Best rank ever
#1,813
2019
Peak year
2019
113 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,217
Count in 2025
97

Names similar to Theia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Theia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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