Theo

girls:

3.5k births since 1880

#2947 (48th percentile)

boys:

27.7k births since 1880

#688 (85th percentile)

overall:

31.2k births since 1880

#1440 (81st percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Theo".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
3,451
Peak Births
111
Peak Year
1924
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
17.2%
Current Percentile
3.9%
Peak Rank
#211
Current Rank
#910
Female statistics
Total Births
27,717
Peak Births
4,122
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
91.8%
Current Percentile
91.8%
Peak Rank
#76
Current Rank
#76
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Theo

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Theo. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Theo is pronounced as THEE-oh.

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100.0%
THEE-oh (2 syllables)
Verified
100.0% confidence
TH IY1 OW0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Theo. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Theo, please vote using the thumbs up button.

THEE-uh (2 syllables)
4 names 19.7k births
TH IY1 AH0
THAY-uh (2 syllables)
4 names 19.4k births
TH EY1 AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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 OW0) 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.