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Theia vs Theo

American parents have registered 39,333 Theos since 1880, against 1,217 Theias. Theo is still ahead, with 3,966 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Theia against Theo, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Theia Theo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Theo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1967, when Theia had 6 and Theo had 29.

Side by side

  Theia Theo
Total US births 1,21739,333
Most in one year 1134,182
Babies in 2025 973,966
Estimated living today 1,20033,000
Median age today 64
Peak year 20192023
Best rank 1,802nd girls78th boys
Rank in 2025 1,981st82nd
First recorded 19671880
Girls / boys 1,217 / 03,503 / 35,830

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Theias alive today are over 6; half the Theos are over 4. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Theia Theo
France 180 Théia133,745 Théo
England and Wales 89243,001
Switzerland 164,225 Théo
Scotland 552,803
Ireland 282,114
Northern Ireland 101,309
Poland 2433

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Theia and Theo.