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Theodoro

#2,933 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Theodoro has been given to 309 babies in the U.S. since 1929. In 2025 it ranked #2,933 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Theodoro, 2025

1 in 77,100

Theodoro over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Theodoro: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Theodoro means

Theodoro is a given name.

The naming story behind Theodoro

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Theodoro in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 101.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Port. Gr. divine gift”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Theodoro, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 309 boys were recorded with the name Theodoro between 1929 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,933 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,578 in 2020 to #2,933 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 Theodoro?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 39,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,933
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Theodoro sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Theodoro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Theodoros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Theodoro was born before 2018 — so the typical Theodoro is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
44.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
287
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 44.3% of all recorded uses (137).

Is Theodoro 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
+1,248
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,645
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (43)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,933
2025

Spellings of Theodoro

Theodoro is not the most common spelling — Theodore is, with 96.5% against Theodoro's 0.09%.

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 Theodoro is used

Across 1910–2025, Theodoro was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 919,473 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Theodoro has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Theodoro around the world

Where Theodoro 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
    2018–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #584
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1958–1972
    #479
    in 1972

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Theodoro by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,933
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,645
Best rank ever
#2,933
2025
Peak year
2025
43 that year
First recorded
1929
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
309
Count in 2025
43

Names similar to Theodoro

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

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Sibling names for Theodoro

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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