Thekla

Where Thekla comes from

Thekla hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 701
    Thekla born
    Byzantine empress, wife of Michael II
  2. 1871
    Thekla Resvoll born
    Norwegian botanist
  3. 1882
    First appearance
    #908 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1890
    Peak, #727
    14 babies named Thekla — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1891
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Thekla Resvoll · Norwegian botanist, 1871–1948
  • Thekla · Byzantine empress, wife of Michael II, 701–823
  • Thekla Reuten · Dutch actress, born 1975
  • Thekla · daughter of Theophilos, 825–900
  • Thekla Brun-Lie · Norwegian biathlete, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.