Theodis
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Theodis has been given to 2,244 babies in the U.S. since 1911. 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 1955, with 61 recorded.
Babies named Theodis, 2021
1 in 424,000
Theodis 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Theodis?
Theodis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 424,000
- 8 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 219,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 293,719 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Theodis sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 293,719 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Theodis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Theodiss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Theodis was born before 1954 — so the typical Theodis is around 71 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 20.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.5%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,318
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 20.0% of all recorded uses (449).
Is Theodis 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1955 (61)
- Years since peak
- 70
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.1% average annual change
Spellings of Theodis
Theodis is the most-used spelling, taking 36.8% of the 6,106 babies given a near-identical spelling.
Where Theodis is used
Across 1910–2025, Theodis was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 57,338 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Theodis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Theodis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Theodis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Theodis
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Theodis, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Theodis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.