Thedore
Thedore was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 1,136 Americans have been recorded with it between 1902 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Thedore by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Thedore?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,157, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1929, the peak
Thedore peaked in 1929, when 34 boys were given it, #1,213 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #12,157 | 3.4 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,644 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,482 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,146 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,250 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,454 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,941 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,627 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,682 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,365 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 6 | #3,929 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,964 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,765 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,831 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 9 | #3,034 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,600 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,230 | 7.1 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,313 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,803 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,358 | 6.1 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,266 | 6.5 |
| 1956 | 21 | #1,757 | 9.9 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,970 | 8.3 |
| 1954 | 18 | #1,883 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 17 | #1,948 | 8.6 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,496 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 16 | #1,963 | 8.5 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,012 | 8.4 |
| 1949 | 21 | #1,663 | 11.8 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,016 | 8.5 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,241 | 7.1 |
| 1946 | 17 | #1,805 | 10.5 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,489 | 15.6 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,474 | 16.1 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,392 | 7.7 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,417 | 18.1 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,987 | 11.4 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,676 | 15.5 |
| 1939 | 15 | #1,868 | 13.6 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,472 | 19.8 |
| 1937 | 14 | #1,982 | 13.1 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,269 | 27.0 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,485 | 21.1 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,458 | 22.3 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,637 | 19.2 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,320 | 26.8 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,533 | 21.2 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,597 | 20.0 |
| 1929 | 34 | #1,213 | 31.6 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,410 | 25.3 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,515 | 10.6 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,461 | 23.4 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,490 | 23.3 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,572 | 22.1 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,297 | 29.2 |
| 1922 | 18 | #1,944 | 16.5 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,140 | 14.5 |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,539 | 23.5 |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,292 | 31.6 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,815 | 18.7 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,685 | 21.6 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,842 | 19.1 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,776 | 20.0 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,764 | 21.4 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,790 | 21.5 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,032 | 18.6 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,371 | 35.4 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,568 | 30.9 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,263 | 42.7 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,102 | 51.8 |
| 1907 | 12 | #808 | 81.7 |
| 1906 | 9 | #916 | 67.6 |
| 1905 | 11 | #783 | 83.1 |
| 1903 | 10 | #775 | 83.9 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,127 | 48.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Thedore a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Thedore has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Thedore: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Thedore, and how old are they?
An estimated 317 Americans named Thedore and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (28% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 62 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 424 people named Thedore (6 women and girls, 418 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 402 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 323,625 babies since 1880, Thedore is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 13,410 babies recorded by SSA was a Thedore (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Thedore
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 Thedore and names like it
- Compare Thedore and TheodoreBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sThedore peaked in 1929.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Thedore since 1910.
- The top names of 1929The year the most babies were named Thedore.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Thedore alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.