Theodora

Where Theodora comes from

From the Ancient Greek feminine form of Theodore.
— Wiktionary's entry for Theodora
  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 500
    Theodora born
    Byzantine empress from 527 to 548
  2. 984
    Theodora Porphyrogenita born
    Byzantine empress regnant
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #518 among girls — 11 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1885
    Peak, #500
    18 babies named Theodora — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #828.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, most famously borne by two empresses of Byzantium.
Namesakes
  • Theodora · Byzantine empress from 527 to 548, 500–548
  • Theodora Porphyrogenita · Byzantine empress regnant, 984–1056
  • Theodora · 9th-century Byzantine empress, wife of Theophilos, 815–867
  • Theodora of Trebizond · Empress regnant of Trebizond, nun
  • Theodora Kroeber · American anthropologist, 1897–1979

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.