Theora

Last seen for girls in 2024 at #11,122

Peak · girls
1901 · 10 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
853
since 1891

Theora over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Theora has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201891peak #1,067, 1901girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2024#11,1228
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2020#12,1427
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1990#12,9585
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1988#9,2447
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1968#7,0165
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1958#4,8907
1957#4,9187
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1955#5,8285
1954#5,1486
1953#5,6735
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1951#4,8336
1950#3,42310
1949#3,8928
1948#4,6516
1947#4,0078
1946#3,6658
1945#4,0256
1944#4,0546
1943#2,44714
1942#2,81711
1941#2,39713
1940#2,20314
1939#3,1458
1938#2,73010
1937#2,31713
1936#2,26313
1935#4,2045
1934#2,42412
1933#1,83518
1932#2,03716
1931#1,87618
1930#1,43429
1929#1,22337
1928#2,02318
1927#2,25616
1926#1,58927
1925#1,70025
1924#1,99220
1923#1,78223
1922#1,89721
1921#2,28216
1920#1,75123
1919#1,27036
1918#1,33333
1917#1,33730
1916#1,48525
1915#1,33928
1914#1,22825
1913#1,35818
1912#1,54013
1911#1,30013
1910#1,52110
1909#1,4719
1908#1,26111
1907#1,20611
1906#1,4168
1905#1,2989
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1902#1,7935
1901#1,06710
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1899#1,3946
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1897#1,3856
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1891#1,0937
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First appearance
1891

The first year at least five girls were named Theora! It came in at #1,093, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1892–1896, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Theora is popular in 1891

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Theora
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · girls
10 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1891
  • Peaked 1901 at #1,067 (10 births)
  • Births halved by 1902, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 23,935
  • Highest: 1 in 23,935 girls born in 1901 were named Theora (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 202,524 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1910s
  • 27.1% of all girls named Theora (231) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s19#1,093 (1891)#1,291
1900s63#1,067 (1901)#1,359
1910s231#1,228 (1914)#1,371
1920s226#1,223 (1929)#1,850
1930s142#1,434 (1930)#2,427
1940s94#2,203 (1940)#3,416
1950s46#3,423 (1950)#4,959
1960s5#7,016 (1968)#7,016
1970s0——
1980s7#9,244 (1988)#9,244
1990s5#12,958 (1990)#12,958
2000s0——
2010s0——
2020s15#11,122 (2024)#11,632

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.

Theora in 1891

girls
#1,093
7 births · 1 in 26,497 girls

Top girls' names in 1891

  1. #1Mary11,704
  2. #2Anna5,099
  3. #3Margaret3,065
  4. #4Elizabeth3,059
  5. #5Emma2,884
  6. #6Florence2,716
  7. #7Ethel2,689
  8. #8Minnie2,428
  9. #9Helen2,417
  10. #10Bertha2,372
  11. #1,093Theora7
More about 1891

girls

185,482 girls got a published name in 1891; 1 in 26,497 of them was named Theora, which outranked 28.7% of the 1,533 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Theora
  1. #1,006Venus8
  2. #1,006Vicie8
  3. #1,006Zoa8
  4. #1,093Theora7
  5. #1,093Ader7
  6. #1,093Adline7
  7. #1,093Alene7
  8. #1,213Agusta6
  9. #1,213Alba6
  10. #1,213Albertha6

Tied with 119 names at #1,093; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1890
Risers
  1. ↑ 588Aurore#1,338 → #750
  2. ↑ 588Zelpha#1,338 → #750
  3. ↑ 499Leva#1,338 → #839
  4. ↑ 499Vira#1,338 → #839
  5. ↑ 483Sister#1,210 → #727
Fallers
  1. ↓ 574Prudie#758 → #1,332
  2. ↓ 571Delila#642 → #1,213
  3. ↓ 541Elmina#791 → #1,332
  4. ↓ 541Tinnie#791 → #1,332
  5. ↓ 520Dorcas#693 → #1,213

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1891 →