Theda
Theda was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 6,556 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,630 Americans named Theda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (25% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 63 and 82.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Theda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Theda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Theda is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Theda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,448, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
356 babies in 1919, the peak
Theda peaked in 1919, when 356 girls were given it, #337 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #17,448 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,297 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,683 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,909 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,865 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,468 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,359 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,461 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,391 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,377 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 7 | #11,683 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,696 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,189 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,830 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,093 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,847 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,551 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #12,016 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,147 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,197 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,922 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,177 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,138 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 16 | #4,024 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,165 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,507 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,929 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,703 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,642 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,155 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,114 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,299 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,198 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 37 | #1,970 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,206 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 34 | #2,023 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 39 | #1,868 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 40 | #1,808 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 44 | #1,668 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,815 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 56 | #1,424 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 55 | #1,435 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 60 | #1,307 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 59 | #1,298 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 82 | #1,069 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 62 | #1,214 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 67 | #1,149 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 77 | #1,050 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 64 | #1,142 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 77 | #999 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 88 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 62 | #1,085 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 65 | #967 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 66 | #963 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 73 | #915 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 67 | #957 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 78 | #819 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 87 | #740 | 0.08 |
| 1939 | 90 | #722 | 0.08 |
| 1938 | 84 | #763 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 105 | #665 | 0.10 |
| 1936 | 84 | #727 | 0.08 |
| 1935 | 82 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1934 | 102 | #666 | 0.10 |
| 1933 | 77 | #754 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 103 | #666 | 0.10 |
| 1931 | 106 | #646 | 0.10 |
| 1930 | 103 | #678 | 0.09 |
| 1929 | 143 | #573 | 0.13 |
| 1928 | 138 | #601 | 0.12 |
| 1927 | 132 | #621 | 0.11 |
| 1926 | 179 | #523 | 0.15 |
| 1925 | 184 | #525 | 0.15 |
| 1924 | 198 | #501 | 0.16 |
| 1923 | 220 | #465 | 0.18 |
| 1922 | 204 | #483 | 0.17 |
| 1921 | 293 | #395 | 0.24 |
| 1920 | 290 | #385 | 0.24 |
| 1919 | 356 | #337 | 0.32 |
| 1918 | 354 | #351 | 0.31 |
| 1917 | 334 | #343 | 0.31 |
| 1916 | 315 | #350 | 0.30 |
| 1915 | 124 | #585 | 0.13 |
| 1914 | 33 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,461 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,346 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,230 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 18 | #1,061 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,362 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,194 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,797 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,402 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,902 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,163 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,301 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,208 | 0.04 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,323 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 16 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,814 | 0.02 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,945 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 10 | #1,085 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,797 | 0.02 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,686 | 0.02 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,646 | 0.02 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,193 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 9 | #851 | 0.06 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,265 | 0.03 |
| 1880 | 5 | #935 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Theda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Theda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 108 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Theda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Theda, and how old are they?
1,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 25% of the 6,556 Americans ever recorded as Theda. The median Theda alive today is 73 years old; half are between 63 and 82.
The 2020 Census counted 2,031 people named Theda (2,031 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,117 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 434 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 808 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 252 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 63 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 16 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 34 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Theda born?
The states with the most babies named Theda are Texas, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 473 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 450 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Oklahoma | 310 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Ohio | 280 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 219 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Kentucky | 168 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Arkansas | 165 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 145 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 144 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 138 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Theda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Theda is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 2.4 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 Theda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Theda
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 Theda and names like it
- Compare Theda and ConcettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sTheda peaked in 1919.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Theda since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Theda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Theda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.