Theodosia
Theodosia is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 28 births. Its best rank was 576th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 280.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191845 births
- Best rank
- #576in 1880
- Since 1880
- 1,669people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,669 girls have been named Theodosia in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 45 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 14 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Theodosia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 84 | |
| 1890s | 110 | |
| 1900s | 105 | |
| 1910s | 270 | |
| 1920s | 300 | |
| 1930s | 150 | |
| 1940s | 150 | |
| 1950s | 129 | |
| 1960s | 74 | |
| 1970s | 64 | |
| 1980s | 24 | |
| 1990s | 12 | |
| 2000s | 6 | |
| 2010s | 49 | |
| 2020s | 142 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Theodosia was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Theodosia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Florapeak 1920
- Almirapeak 1917
- Estellapeak 1921
- Corneliapeak 1921
- Jessiepeak 1918
- Partheniapeak 1923
- Leonorapeak 1924
- Clarapeak 1918
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.