girls:
1.6k births since 1880
#4117 (28th percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1880
#6105 (21st percentile)
The name Theodosia is the #6,105 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,641 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 21.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,117 (28.0% percentile) for all time with 1,641 births since 1880.
Theodosia has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Theodosia is available in 113 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. 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, Theodosia reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 6.8% percentile (ranked #550) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 102 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Theodosia ranks #921 for girls (2.7% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 17.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Theodosia".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Theodosia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.8% confident that Theodosia is pronounced as thee-uh-DOH-shuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is thee-uh-DOH-zhuh, at 31.3% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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