Theia

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Theia: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Theia: Recorded every year since 2006, it reached #333 in 2020, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
20years from first to last
#333highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2006–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2006	#5061
2007	#3218
2008	#3860
2009	#3422
2010	#2589
2011	#1665
2012	#1809
2013	#1048
2014	#688
2015	#570
2016	#522
2017	#609
2018	#710
2019	#694
2020	#582
2021	#457
2022	#586
2023	#558
2024	#676

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2006 to 2024.

In 2024: #676 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 2006–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2006
First recorded at #5061 among girls in England and Wales in 2006 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2020–2023
Highest recorded position: #333 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2020 (recorded 2020–2023).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Theia appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 2006, and has registered 844 births with the name.

Theia across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Theia's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#5061 (2006)	#457 (2021)	#676 (2024)	19 of 19	844 (2006–2024)	95 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#581 (2015)	#517 (2021)	#885 (2025)	6 of 11	28 (2015–2025)	7 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#333 (2020)	#333 (2020)	#391 (2023)	3 of 4	10 (2020–2023)	4 (2020)

Theia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Theia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	20	4 of 10	5
2010s	471	10 of 10	47
2020sbusiest	353	5 of 10	71

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 71 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2021 and 2022, when recorded births fell by 29, from 95 to 66.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Theia appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 2006 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #333 in Northern Ireland in 2020.

Theia's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#676	56	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#558	69	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#586	66	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#457	95	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#582	67	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#694	56	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#710	56	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#609	69	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#522	82	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#570	75	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#688	57	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1048	34	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1809	16	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1665	17	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2589	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#333	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#517	7	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#581	6	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 2006 and 2025, ranked in 20 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #333, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 95 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2015, and 18 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Malia · #331, 25y
Bella-Rose · #336, 17y
Adalyn · #337, 15y
Avah · #328, 18y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Elsie-Mae · #333, 19y
Jayla · #333, 22y
Aobh · #332, 11y
Joris · #334, 18y

Theia was ranked #333 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Theia and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Theia without appearing here.

Theia moved ahead of

Evan Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3860 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1665 and #5785.
Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1809 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1048 and #4739.
Ezra Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3422 and #3422 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2589 and #5707.
Kai Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3422 and #2326 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2589 and #5707.

Moved ahead of Theia

Ashley Compare
In 2021 they stood at #517 and #661 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #747 and #389.
Astrid Compare
In 2021 they stood at #517 and #764 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #747 and #458.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #694 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #582 and #460.
Liv Compare
In 2021 they stood at #517 and #661 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #747 and #634.

Moved the opposite way to Theia

Abigail Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Theia went from #5061 to #676 while Abigail went from #23 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Theia went from #5061 to #676 while Aimee went from #65 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Theia went from #5061 to #676 while Aisling went from #1004 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Theia went from #5061 to #676 while Alex went from #279 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Theia

Ada Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Theia went from #5061 to #676 and Ada from #976 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Theia went from #5061 to #676 and Alma from #1087 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Theia went from #5061 to #676 and Amelia from #16 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Theia went from #5061 to #676 and Aria from #1280 to #35.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 2006 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #333 in Northern Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Theia

Theia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Theia across 3 official records

Theia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Theia across 3 official records

Theia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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