Theda
Theda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 337th, in 1919.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1919356 births
- Best rank
- #337in 1919
- Since 1880
- 6,556people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,556 girls have been named Theda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 356 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 356 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 30%. It has spent 36 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Theda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 19 | |
| 1890s | 42 | |
| 1900s | 100 | |
| 1910s | 1,583 | |
| 1920s | 1,981 | |
| 1930s | 936 | |
| 1940s | 727 | |
| 1950s | 599 | |
| 1960s | 314 | |
| 1970s | 135 | |
| 1980s | 36 | |
| 1990s | 39 | |
| 2000s | 6 | |
| 2010s | 29 | |
| 2020s | 10 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Theda was the 337th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Theda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Florenepeak 1919
- Olenepeak 1922
- Loraynepeak 1922
- Wanetapeak 1923
- Maxinepeak 1924
- Ruthepeak 1924
- Marjorypeak 1921
- Eleanorepeak 1921
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.