Theda
The girl's name Theda has been in the national records since 1880, with 6,556 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2021. About 1,700 Thedas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 73.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Theda
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,556
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 73
- Peak year
- 1919
- Best rank
- 337th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Thedas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,556 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,700 are alive — 26 in every hundred. Roughly 40 of them are children and 1,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1952 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Thedas
- Theda Bara (1885–1955)American actress
- Theda Skocpol (born 1947)American sociologist and political scientist
- Theda Ukena (1432–1494)East Frisian countess by marriage and later regent of East Frisia
People named Theda with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Theda is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Theda is most concentrated in Oklahoma (6.4×), Arkansas (4.3×), Kansas (3.4×), West Virginia (3.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1919
The most popular girls’ names the year Theda peaked:
Theda by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 8 | 538th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Related names
Theda against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.