girls:
949 births since 1901
#4767 (17th percentile)
boys:
291.7k births since 1880
#123 (97th percentile)
overall:
292.6k births since 1880
#263 (97th percentile)
The name Theodore is the #263 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 292,617 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #123 (97.3% percentile) for all time with 291,668 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,767 (16.6% percentile) for all time with 949 births since 1901.
Theodore has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1901 for girls).
The name Theodore has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Theodore reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 99.3% percentile (ranked #7) with 6,030 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 6,030 births per million (ranked 99.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2003, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Theodore is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #7 (99.3% percentile) with 6,030 births per million.
For girls, Theodore reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #567) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 26 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Theodore ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 24.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Theodore".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Theodore. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.5% confident that Theodore is pronounced as THEE-uh-DOR, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is THEE-uh-dor, at 40.0% confidence, with 3 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 D AO1 R) 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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