Theodora

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Theodora: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #340 in 2019, and it stood at #353 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#340highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1364
1997	#1802
1998	#1259
1999	#1805
2000	#897
2001	#992
2002	#1784
2003	#1269
2004	#1312
2005	#1121
2006	#1585
2007	#1573
2008	#1247
2009	#1467
2010	#1332
2011	#1196
2012	#955
2013	#750
2014	#516
2015	#708
2016	#615
2017	#624
2018	#449
2019	#340
2020	#364
2021	#387
2022	#355
2023	#386
2024	#388
2025	#353

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 1996 to 2025.

In 2025: #353 among girls in England and Wales, #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1364 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2025
Highest recorded position: #340 among girls in England and Wales, in 2019 (recorded 1996–2025).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #353 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Theodora appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 30 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,573 births with the name.

Theodora across 2 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.

Theodora'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	#1364 (1996)	#340 (2019)	#353 (2025)	30 of 30	1,573 (1996–2025)	132 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#655 (2003)	#390 (2021)	#608 (2025)	11 of 23	66 (2003–2025)	10 (2017)

Theodora 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 Theodora in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	46	4 of 10	12
2000s	184	10 of 10	18
2010s	643	10 of 10	64
2020sbusiest	700	6 of 10	117

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 117 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2018 and 2019, when recorded births rose by 35, from 97 to 132.

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

Theodora 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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #340 in England and Wales in 2019.

Theodora'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
2025	England and Wales	female	#353	121	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#388	112	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#386	107	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#355	121	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#387	117	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#364	122	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#340	132	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#449	97	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#624	67	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#615	69	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#708	56	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#516	82	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#750	52	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#955	38	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1196	27	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1332	23	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1467	19	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1247	23	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1573	16	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1585	15	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1121	22	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1312	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1269	17	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1784	10	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#992	21	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#897	24	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1259	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1802	9	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1364	13	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#556	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#390	10	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#444	8	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#621	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#568	6	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#396	10	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#431	7	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.

Where Theodora is officially recorded

4 official registrars have recorded Theodora, between 1996 and 2025. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#340 in 2019
Republic of Ireland	2003–2025	11	#390 in 2021
Northern Ireland	2019	1	#424 in 2019
Scotland	2024	1	#431 in 2024

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #340, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 132 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 28 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.

Theoden · #1613, 16y
Theodor · #8, 44y
Theodore · #3, 33y
Theodore-James · #2529, 10y

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.

Reid · #339, 30y
Ronin · #341, 26y
Rueben · #339, 30y
Adelaide · #342, 32y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aibhe · #341, 18y
Antoine · #339, 31y
Arden · #339, 25y
Callam · #339, 18y

Theodora was ranked #340 in England and Wales · Girls in 2019. 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.

Aya#336
Elisa#338
Ffion#338
Amirah#340
Inayah#342
Amayah#343
Evangeline#343
Alma#345

Theodora 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Theodora without appearing here.

Theodora moved ahead of

Pauline
In 2003 they stood at #1269 and #1269 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1312 and #2802.
Lorraine
In 2004 they stood at #1312 and #1312 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1121 and #2438.
Carmel
In 2011 they stood at #1196 and #1196 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #955 and #2095.
Denise
In 2007 they stood at #1573 and #1384 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1247 and #2150.

Moved ahead of Theodora

Olive
In 2001 they stood at #992 and #1520 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1784 and #1104.
Mila
In 2001 they stood at #992 and #1107 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1784 and #1442.
Aria
In 2005 they stood at #1121 and #1295 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1585 and #1280.
Harper
In 2008 they stood at #1247 and #1391 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1467 and #1171.

Moved the opposite way to Theodora

Abigail
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Theodora went from #1364 to #353 while Abigail went from #21 to #171.
Aimee
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Theodora went from #1364 to #353 while Aimee went from #70 to #1809.
Aisling
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Theodora went from #1364 to #353 while Aisling went from #440 to #1892.
Alex
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Theodora went from #1364 to #353 while Alex went from #161 to #2605.

Moved the same way as Theodora

Ada
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Theodora went from #1364 to #353 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Theodora went from #1364 to #353 and Alma from #2096 to #211.
Alyssa
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Theodora went from #1364 to #353 and Alyssa from #783 to #325.
Amalie
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Theodora went from #1364 to #353 and Amalie from #2096 to #894.

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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #340 in England and Wales in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Theodora

Theodora at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Theodora across 2 official records

Theodora by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Theodora appears in

Popularity data

Where Theodora is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Theodora

Theodora and the names beside it

Theodora moved ahead of

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Theodora at a glance

Theodora across 2 official records

Theodora by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Theodora appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Theodora

Theodora and the names beside it

Theodora moved ahead of

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