Thekla
Last seen for girls in 2021 at #13,464
- Peak · girls
- 1890 · 14 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 296since 1882
Thekla over time
Rank among girls' names. Thekla has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 |
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| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 |
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| 1922 | #3,655 | 8 |
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| 1919 | #3,817 | 7 |
| 1918 | #2,519 | 13 |
| 1917 | #4,083 | 6 |
| 1916 | #2,498 | 12 |
| 1915 | #2,688 | 10 |
| 1914 | #2,434 | 9 |
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| 1912 | #1,719 | 11 |
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| 1910 | #2,140 | 6 |
| 1909 | #1,607 | 8 |
| 1908 | #1,862 | 6 |
| 1907 | #1,821 | 6 |
| 1906 | #1,951 | 5 |
| 1905 | #1,931 | 5 |
| 1904 | #1,364 | 8 |
| 1903 | #1,592 | 6 |
| 1902 | #1,594 | 6 |
| 1901 | #1,007 | 11 |
| 1900 | #1,319 | 9 |
| 1899 | #1,278 | 7 |
| 1898 | #1,047 | 11 |
| 1897 | #1,094 | 9 |
| 1896 | #1,047 | 10 |
| 1895 | #1,123 | 9 |
| 1894 | #1,237 | 7 |
| 1893 | #865 | 12 |
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| 1890 | #727 | 14 |
| 1889 | #950 | 8 |
| 1888 | #959 | 8 |
| 1887 | #788 | 9 |
| 1886 | #828 | 8 |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | #1,024 | 5 |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | #908 | 5 |
| 1881 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Thekla! It came in at #908, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1882–1885, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Thekla is popular in 1889
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Thekla
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2021
- Biggest jump: 223 spots in 1890 (#950 → #727)
- Biggest drop: 372 spots in 1894 (#865 → #1,237)
- Debuted 1882
- Peaked 1890 at #727 (14 births)
- Births halved by 1891, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1886–1890
- Highest: 1 in 13,598 girls born in 1890 were named Thekla (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 273,477 girls born in 2021 (0.00%)
- 26.7% of all girls named Thekla (79) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1880s | 43 | #788 (1887) | #910 |
| 1890s | 79 | #727 (1890) | #1,052 |
| 1900s | 70 | #1,007 (1901) | #1,605 |
| 1910s | 74 | #1,719 (1912) | #2,737 |
| 1920s | 13 | #3,655 (1922) | #4,358 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 5 | #6,578 (1962) | #6,578 |
| 1970s | 6 | #7,292 (1972) | #7,292 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 0 | — | — |
| 2020s | 6 | #13,464 (2021) | #13,464 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Thekla in 1889
Top girls' names in 1889
More about 1889
girls
178,366 girls got a published name in 1889; 1 in 22,296 of them was named Thekla, which outranked 35.8% of the 1,479 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).