girls:
845 births since 1891
#4871 (15th percentile)
overall:
845 births since 1891
#6894 (11th percentile)
The name Theora is the #6,894 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 845 recorded births since 1891. This represents the 10.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,871 (14.8% percentile) for all time with 845 births since 1891.
Theora first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1891 (first recorded for girls in 1891). Birth data for Theora is available in 61 out of the 130 years between 1891 and 2020. 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, Theora reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 5.4% percentile (ranked #560) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 39 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Theora".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Theora. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.1% confident that Theora is pronounced as THEE-aw-ruh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is thee-AW-ruh, at 23.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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