girls:
18.3k births since 1880
#1092 (81st percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1924
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
18.3k births since 1880
#1896 (76th percentile)
The name Thea is the #1,896 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,341 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 75.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,092 (80.9% percentile) for all time with 18,336 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1924.
Thea has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1924 for boys). Birth data for Thea is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Thea has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Thea reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 73.4% percentile (ranked #253) with 630 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 650 births per million (ranked 72.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Thea ranks #303 for girls (68.1% percentile) with 555 births per million, which is 85.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Thea reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #554) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1924.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Thea".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Thea. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Thea is pronounced as THEE-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAY-uh, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like TH IY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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