girls:
296 births since 1882
#5420 (5th percentile)
overall:
296 births since 1882
#7443 (4th percentile)
The name Thekla is the #7,443 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 296 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 3.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,420 (5.1% percentile) for all time with 296 births since 1882.
Thekla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (first recorded for girls in 1882). Birth data for Thekla is available in 37 out of the 140 years between 1882 and 2021. 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.
For girls, Thekla reached its peak popularity in 1890, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #286) with 69 births per million. The name was most common in 1890, with 69 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Thekla".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Thekla is pronounced as THEHK-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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