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Tudor

#13,722 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly god + gift, through Θεόδωρος

Tudor has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #13,722 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Tudor, 2025

1 in 663,000

Tudor over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tudor: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly god + gift, through Θεόδωρος

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tudor means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Tudor is used in Romanian.

Tudor comes through Ancient Greek Θεόδωρος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Theodore, Teodor and Θεόδωρος.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 79 boys were recorded with the name Tudor between 1921 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2009; its best national rank was #4,283 in 1921.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,888 in 2020 to #13,722 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tudor?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,722
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tudor 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tudor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tudors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tudor was born before 2011 — so the typical Tudor is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
68
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Choose a decade

2010s — 40.5% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Tudor 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
+166
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 2009 (9)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,283
1921

Spellings of Tudor

Tudor is not the most common spelling — Tylor is, with 55.2% against Tudor's 0.54%.

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.

Tudor around the world

Where Tudor 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
    #702
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2024
    #655
    in 2024
  • France
    2010–2025
    #5,530
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2014
    #2,672
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1958–2000
    #556
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Tudor by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,722
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 166
Best rank ever
#4,283
1921
Peak year
2009
9 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
79
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Tudor

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

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Sibling names for Tudor

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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