Theodosia
Theodosia is a girl's name that peaked in 1918, when it was the 1,091st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 4,067th. About 620 Theodosias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 53.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Theodosia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,705
- Estimated living today
- 620
- Median age today
- 53
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 1,091st
- Rank in 2025
- 4,067th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Theodosias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,705 babies given the name since 1880, about 620 are alive — 36 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1972 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
Borrowed from Latin Theodosia. Feminine form of Theodosius.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Theodosias
- Theodosia (born 770)Byzantine empress, wife of Leo V
- Theodosia Okoh (1922–2015)designer of the Ghana national flag
People named Theodosia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Theodosia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Theodosia is most concentrated in Pennsylvania (7.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular girls’ names the year Theodosia peaked:
Theodosia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Theodosia | 13 | 3,318th |
| France girls | Theodosia | 5 | 1,323rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Theodosia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.