Theodis
Theodis was last recorded in 2021, when 8 babies were given it; 2,244 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,280 Americans named Theodis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (57% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 46 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Theodis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Theodis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,601, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
61 babies in 1955, the peak
Theodis peaked in 1955, when 61 boys were given it, #966 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | #9,601 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,983 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,855 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,567 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 5 | #14,004 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 5 | #14,129 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,916 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,537 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,226 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,185 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 7 | #9,022 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,806 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,365 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 10 | #6,040 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,055 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,309 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,420 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,829 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #5,054 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,446 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,778 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,352 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,204 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,114 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,590 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,227 | 13.3 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,215 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,814 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,326 | 12.3 |
| 1980 | 23 | #2,278 | 12.9 |
| 1979 | 34 | #1,708 | 19.7 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,203 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,126 | 14.0 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,320 | 12.7 |
| 1975 | 41 | #1,374 | 26.3 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,351 | 11.4 |
| 1973 | 23 | #1,924 | 14.8 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,318 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 21 | #2,043 | 11.9 |
| 1970 | 27 | #1,694 | 14.5 |
| 1969 | 23 | #1,762 | 12.9 |
| 1968 | 22 | #1,725 | 12.7 |
| 1967 | 33 | #1,337 | 18.9 |
| 1966 | 25 | #1,571 | 14.0 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,253 | 20.4 |
| 1964 | 27 | #1,539 | 13.5 |
| 1963 | 21 | #1,784 | 10.3 |
| 1962 | 33 | #1,384 | 16.0 |
| 1961 | 31 | #1,463 | 14.6 |
| 1960 | 41 | #1,237 | 19.2 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,296 | 17.3 |
| 1958 | 50 | #1,087 | 23.6 |
| 1957 | 29 | #1,483 | 13.4 |
| 1956 | 44 | #1,154 | 20.8 |
| 1955 | 61 | #966 | 29.6 |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,239 | 18.1 |
| 1953 | 45 | #1,097 | 22.8 |
| 1952 | 59 | #930 | 30.4 |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,190 | 20.2 |
| 1950 | 49 | #1,003 | 27.4 |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,026 | 26.5 |
| 1948 | 49 | #1,013 | 27.9 |
| 1947 | 48 | #1,050 | 26.2 |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,142 | 23.4 |
| 1945 | 37 | #1,070 | 27.5 |
| 1944 | 40 | #1,052 | 29.3 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,305 | 20.3 |
| 1942 | 40 | #1,088 | 29.0 |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,296 | 22.0 |
| 1940 | 39 | #1,049 | 33.6 |
| 1939 | 35 | #1,102 | 31.6 |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,218 | 27.0 |
| 1937 | 31 | #1,209 | 29.1 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,322 | 25.1 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,652 | 18.2 |
| 1934 | 41 | #1,021 | 39.7 |
| 1933 | 29 | #1,250 | 29.2 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,382 | 24.9 |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,331 | 26.9 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,746 | 17.3 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,560 | 21.4 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,444 | 24.4 |
| 1927 | 19 | #1,863 | 16.9 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,551 | 10.8 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,178 | 13.4 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,123 | 14.1 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,689 | 20.1 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,820 | 18.4 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,141 | 14.5 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,326 | 13.2 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,745 | 20.4 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,343 | 7.9 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,033 | 16.9 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,805 | 10.6 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,227 | 9.2 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,716 | 26.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Theodis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Theodis has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 96 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Theodis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Theodis, and how old are they?
1,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 57% of the 2,244 Americans ever recorded as Theodis. The median Theodis alive today is 61 years old; half are between 46 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 1,056 people named Theodis (13 women and girls, 1,043 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,449 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 116 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 507 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 353 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 202 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 74 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 26 |
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 Theodis born?
The states with the most babies named Theodis are Arkansas, Alabama and Georgia, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Arkansas and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 411 | not ranked | 13.7× |
| Alabama | 146 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Georgia | 95 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Mississippi | 81 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Florida | 44 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 14 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Tennessee | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Theodis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Theodis is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1911 it was given 13.7 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 boys’ 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 Theodis 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 2,422 babies since 1880, Theodis is the most given (93% of them).
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 Theodis
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 Theodis and names like it
- Compare Theodis and TheodusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sTheodis peaked in 1955.
- Arkansas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Theodis since 1910.
- The top names of 1955The year the most babies were named Theodis.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Theodis alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.