Teodora
Teodora was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,090 among girls’ names; 1,323 Americans have been recorded with it since 1893 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Teodora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Teodora mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Teodora is “a female given name, masculine equivalent Teodor, equivalent to English Theodora”
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. )
/tɛ.ɔˈdɔ.ra/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Teodora?
#6,090 among girls’ names, 2025
Teodora rose from #10,794 in 2015 to #6,090 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 12.4 per million.
23 babies in 1921, the peak
Teodora peaked in 1921, when 23 girls were given it, #1,859 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,090 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,770 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,648 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,956 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,925 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,649 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,097 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,757 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,871 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,775 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,794 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,879 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,714 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,666 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,396 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,243 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,845 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,045 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,059 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,811 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,226 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,053 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,957 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,301 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,492 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,286 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,039 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,969 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,677 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,489 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,289 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,478 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,393 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,548 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,062 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,712 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,935 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,457 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,261 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 5 | #12,029 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,255 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,148 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #9,014 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,883 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,106 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,588 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,509 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,762 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,900 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,657 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,900 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,502 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,929 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,187 | 4.3 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,750 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,460 | 3.4 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,548 | 2.6 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,271 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,167 | 5.0 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,893 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,700 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,663 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,312 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,347 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,242 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,715 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,324 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,678 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 12 | #3,013 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,651 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,614 | 9.8 |
| 1943 | 11 | #3,021 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,705 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,652 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,097 | 14.0 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,197 | 13.7 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,560 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,304 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,670 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,135 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,172 | 14.4 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,598 | 22.8 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,618 | 11.2 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,736 | 19.7 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,675 | 10.7 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,816 | 18.8 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,826 | 19.1 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,159 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,242 | 14.3 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,885 | 18.1 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,200 | 14.4 |
| 1923 | 19 | #2,081 | 15.7 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,468 | 12.5 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,859 | 18.7 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,450 | 12.5 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,145 | 15.0 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,501 | 12.1 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,834 | 18.5 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,810 | 10.5 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,875 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,245 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,783 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,122 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,821 | 12.0 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,618 | 25.2 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,461 | 28.8 |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,364 | 31.4 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,202 | 17.1 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,652 | 25.1 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,382 | 30.0 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,565 | 25.2 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,631 | 23.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Teodora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Teodora has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 112 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Teodora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Teodora, and how old are they?
An estimated 782 Americans named Teodora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (59% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 12 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 4,952 people named Teodora (4,929 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 738 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Teodora born?
The states with the most babies named Teodora are Texas, California and New York, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 482 | not ranked | 5.0× |
| California | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Teodora is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Teodora is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 5.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Teodora with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,145 babies since 1880, Teodora is the most given (62% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 20 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Teodora
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Teodora and names like it
- Compare Teodora and TedraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sTeodora peaked in 1921.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Teodora since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Teodora: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Teodora.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Teodora alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.