Theodore

At the 2020 census, 4,389 Americans bore the surname Theodore — 7,320th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 68,100.

By the numbers

People: 4,389
Rank: 7,320th
How common: 1 in 68,100
Per 100,000: 1.5

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Theodore described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 46.0%
White, not Hispanic 43.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Theodore

José Théodore (born 1976)Canadian ice hockey player
Shea Theodore (born 1995)Canadian ice hockey defenceman
Jordan Theodore (born 1989)Macedonian basketball player

People named Theodore with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Theodore

Also a first name

Theodore has been given to 318,175 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.