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How popular is “Theodore” in the USA?

Number of people named “Theodore” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Theodore” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Theodore” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Theodore” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Theodore” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Theodore” by birth year

This chart shows how “Theodore” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 232 0.001151456 232 -100%
1881 178 0.000923764 178 -100%
1882 232 0.001047248 232 -100%
1883 185 0.000852751 185 -100%
1884 211 0.000866669 211 -100%
1885 199 0.000826227 199 -100%
1886 258 0.001010509 258 -100%
1887 201 0.000812472 201 -100%
1888 249 0.000831461 249 -100%
1889 231 0.000799457 231 -100%
1890 190 0.000630389 190 -100%
1891 224 0.000781384 224 -100%
1892 239 0.000714768 239 -100%
1893 209 0.000642636 209 -100%
1894 241 0.000711565 241 -100%
1895 208 0.000592557 208 -100%
1896 241 0.000674156 241 -100%
1897 215 0.000619673 215 -100%
1898 281 0.000736651 281 -100%
1899 252 0.000742852 252 -100%
1900 429 0.000952781 429 -100%
1901 456 0.001318636 6 450 -97%
1902 642 0.001660064 642 -100%
1903 668 0.001752352 5 663 -99%
1904 834 0.002066991 834 -100%
1905 834 0.001967329 834 -100%
1906 693 0.001617454 5 688 -99%
1907 712 0.001529893 712 -100%
1908 648 0.001326097 5 643 -98%
1909 603 0.001179522 8 595 -97%
1910 700 0.001185011 8 692 -98%
1911 763 0.00118427 10 753 -97%
1912 1569 0.00158796 8 1561 -99%
1913 1656 0.001456322 6 1650 -99%
1914 1936 0.001366898 7 1929 -99%
1915 2511 0.001370312 7 2504 -99%
1916 2649 0.001369404 8 2641 -99%
1917 2820 0.001405254 11 2809 -99%
1918 3159 0.001455016 16 3143 -99%
1919 3441 0.001630612 17 3424 -99%
1920 3235 0.001429739 16 3219 -99%
1921 3178 0.001361317 7 3171 -100%
1922 3231 0.00141144 14 3217 -99%
1923 3176 0.001379374 19 3157 -99%
1924 3241 0.001360838 15 3226 -99%
1925 3240 0.001388579 15 3225 -99%
1926 3146 0.001370271 17 3129 -99%
1927 3147 0.001356843 24 3123 -98%
1928 2943 0.001301693 25 2918 -98%
1929 2932 0.001337488 30 2902 -98%
1930 2978 0.001339462 20 2958 -99%
1931 2687 0.00127688 20 2667 -99%
1932 2689 0.001273645 15 2674 -99%
1933 2623 0.001311888 12 2611 -99%
1934 2541 0.001223537 18 2523 -99%
1935 2439 0.001167087 6 2433 -100%
1936 2228 0.00107243 9 2219 -99%
1937 2326 0.001091699 11 2315 -99%
1938 2370 0.001071156 9 2361 -99%
1939 2207 0.001001632 11 2196 -99%
1940 2313 0.001004517 7 2306 -99%
1941 2336 0.000958815 5 2331 -100%
1942 2670 0.000977404 6 2664 -100%
1943 2621 0.000928607 5 2616 -100%
1944 2585 0.000960964 11 2574 -99%
1945 2353 0.000886971 6 2347 -99%
1946 2618 0.000819342 6 2612 -100%
1947 2932 0.000813942 5 2927 -100%
1948 2839 0.000822307 11 2828 -99%
1949 3047 0.000874391 6 3041 -100%
1950 2968 0.000847176 8 2960 -99%
1951 3224 0.000875192 7 3217 -100%
1952 3278 0.000863078 10 3268 -99%
1953 2950 0.000765516 13 2937 -99%
1954 3084 0.000774736 13 3071 -99%
1955 2985 0.000743449 7 2978 -100%
1956 2963 0.000718637 5 2958 -100%
1957 2764 0.000657705 8 2756 -99%
1958 2520 0.000609761 15 2505 -99%
1959 2402 0.000577859 8 2394 -99%
1960 2393 0.000576031 11 2382 -99%
1961 2316 0.000559295 15 2301 -99%
1962 2329 0.000577193 12 2317 -99%
1963 2394 0.000604761 9 2385 -99%
1964 2180 0.000560747 10 2170 -99%
1965 2148 0.00059245 7 2141 -99%
1966 1911 0.000549828 7 1904 -99%
1967 1869 0.000550514 13 1856 -99%
1968 1894 0.000560594 5 1889 -99%
1969 1956 0.000562773 12 1944 -99%
1970 1837 0.000509312 8 1829 -99%
1971 1676 0.000488276 11 1665 -99%
1972 1421 0.00045207 1421 -100%
1973 1350 0.000447446 8 1342 -99%
1974 1287 0.000423327 19 1268 -97%
1975 1203 0.00039838 5 1198 -99%
1976 1186 0.000390821 13 1173 -98%
1977 1231 0.000387509 8 1223 -99%
1978 1224 0.00038561 12 1212 -98%
1979 1245 0.000374176 7 1238 -99%
1980 1201 0.000348637 6 1195 -99%
1981 1144 0.000330675 11 1133 -98%
1982 1197 0.000341203 6 1191 -99%
1983 1170 0.000337814 11 1159 -98%
1984 1074 0.000307848 5 1069 -99%
1985 1227 0.000343792 16 1211 -97%
1986 1270 0.000357047 13 1257 -98%
1987 1228 0.000340597 11 1217 -98%
1988 1247 0.000337505 9 1238 -99%
1989 1292 0.000336082 1292 -100%
1990 1232 0.000311733 1232 -100%
1991 1096 0.000281387 1096 -100%
1992 1090 0.000283783 1090 -100%
1993 1036 0.000274802 1036 -100%
1994 939 0.000252599 939 -100%
1995 956 0.000261068 956 -100%
1996 905 0.000248155 905 -100%
1997 956 0.000263686 956 -100%
1998 983 0.000267266 983 -100%
1999 913 0.000247183 913 -100%
2000 934 0.000247115 934 -100%
2001 935 0.000249793 935 -100%
2002 975 0.000260849 975 -100%
2003 964 0.000253567 964 -100%
2004 1005 0.000263064 1005 -100%
2005 1095 0.000284847 1095 -100%
2006 1133 0.00028645 1133 -100%
2007 1137 0.000284488 1137 -100%
2008 1139 0.000289864 1139 -100%
2009 1239 0.000324446 1239 -100%
2010 1332 0.000360543 1332 -100%
2011 1573 0.000430215 1573 -100%
2012 1949 0.000533138 5 1944 -99%
2013 2428 0.000666364 2428 -100%
2014 3228 0.000871447 3228 -100%
2015 4153 0.001122922 4153 -100%
2016 4916 0.001341022 7 4909 -100%
2017 5966 0.001669858 5966 -100%
2018 7083 0.002016943 7083 -100%
2019 7899 0.002279114 7 7892 -100%
2020 8641 0.002591796 14 8627 -100%
2021 9589 0.002837223 8 9581 -100%
2022 10768 0.003202955 14 10754 -100%