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Theodoros

#3,838 in 2025Boys' name

God + gift, through Θεόδωρος

Theodoros has been given to 557 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #3,838 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Theodoros, 2025

1 in 114,000

Theodoros over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Theodoros: meaning, origin, and history

God + gift, through Θεόδωρος

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Theodoros means

Theodoros belongs to the name family reached through Theodoros → Θεόδωρος → Θεόδωρος. Its meaning is “god + gift”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Greek Θεόδωρος (Theódoros), a male given name used in (modern) Greece.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Theodoros (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Theodoros is used in English.

Theodoros comes through Greek Θεόδωρος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Θεόδωρος and Theodore.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 557 boys were recorded with the name Theodoros between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,135 in 1972.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,444 in 2020 to #3,838 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,020 in 2015 to #3,838 in 2025.

How common is Theodoros?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 58,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,838
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Theodoros 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Theodoros. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Theodoross were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Theodoros was born before 2005 — so the typical Theodoros is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
23.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
557
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Choose a decade

2020s — 23.9% of all recorded uses (133).

Is Theodoros 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
+48
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,606
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,182
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.42×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2024 (29)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,135
1972

Spellings of Theodoros

Theodoros is not the most common spelling — Theodore is, with 98.1% against Theodoros's 0.17%.

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 Theodoros is used

Across 1910–2025, Theodoros was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 591,472 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Theodoros has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Theodoros around the world

Where Theodoros 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
    1996–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1952–2010
    #494
    in 2010

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

Theodoros by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,838
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,606
Best rank ever
#3,135
1972
Peak year
2024
29 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
557
Count in 2025
29

Names similar to Theodoros

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

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Sibling names for Theodoros

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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