Theia
#1,981 for girls in 2025, 97 births
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 113 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,217since 1967
Theia over time
Rank among girls' names. Theia has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,981 | 97 |
| 2024 | #1,823 | 110 |
| 2023 | #2,002 | 98 |
| 2022 | #2,103 | 91 |
| 2021 | #1,971 | 99 |
| 2020 | #2,302 | 77 |
| 2019 | #1,802 | 113 |
| 2018 | #1,852 | 109 |
| 2017 | #1,828 | 112 |
| 2016 | #2,017 | 98 |
| 2015 | #2,408 | 76 |
| 2014 | #3,652 | 42 |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 |
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| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
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| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Theia! It came in at #6,042, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1988, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Theia is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Colorado#765 · 1 in 3,636
- Washington#933 · 1 in 4,790
- New York#1,863 · 1 in 13,345
- Florida#2,119 · 1 in 17,227
- California#2,594 · 1 in 24,825
Best ever in a state: #495 in Oregon, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Colorado | #765 | 6 | 1 in 3,636 |
| Washington | #933 | 6 | 1 in 4,790 |
| New York | #1,863 | 6 | 1 in 13,345 |
| Florida | #2,119 | 5 | 1 in 17,227 |
| California | #2,594 | 7 | 1 in 24,825 |
| Texas | #2,952 | 6 | 1 in 27,129 |
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See more about Theia
- 158 spots since 2024 (#1,823 → #1,981)
- 321 spots since 2020 (#2,302 → #1,981)
- 427 spots since 2015 (#2,408 → #1,981)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 2019 at #1,802 (113 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,729 girls born in 2024 were named Theia (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,570 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,802 in 2019, was only 1 in 14,853 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 49.9% of all girls named Theia (607) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 6 | #6,042 (1967) | #6,042 |
| 1970s | 5 | #8,423 (1973) | #8,423 |
| 1980s | 6 | #10,847 (1989) | #10,847 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 21 | #11,459 (2009) | #14,118 |
| 2010s | 607 | #1,802 (2019) | #4,789 |
| 2020s | 572 | #1,823 (2024) | #2,030 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Theia in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
More about 2022
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1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 18,023 of them was named Theia, which outranked 88.2% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,087Naylani92
- #2,087Sequoia92
- #2,087Sora92
- #2,103Theia91
- #2,103Annabeth91
- #2,103Annalia91
- #2,103Anylah91
- #2,123Alyana90
- #2,123Collyns90
- #2,123Edna90
Tied with 19 names at #2,103; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.