Thea

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Thea is ranked 348th among girls in 2024 (893 births). Its best rank was 268th, in 2017.

Rank in 2024: #348down 27 from 2023
Births in 2024: 8930.06% of girls
Peak year: 20181,208 births
Best rank: #268in 2017
Since 1880: 19,237people given the name

Babies named Thea, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

19,237 girls have been named Thea in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 1,208 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 33%. It has spent 35 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Thea
1880s	86
1890s	105
1900s	87
1910s	157
1920s	254
1930s	207
1940s	431
1950s	1,027
1960s	1,099
1970s	1,009
1980s	1,022
1990s	952
2000s	1,362
2010s	6,406
2020s	5,033

In 2018, its biggest year

Thea was the 273rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2018 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2018.

Names that rose and fell with Thea

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.