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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Theseus” in the USA?

Number of people named “Theseus” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Theseus” 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 “Theseus” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Theseus” by birth year

This chart shows how “Theseus” 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
2010 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
2011 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2012 41 0.00001121 41 -100%
2013 31 0.000008503 31 -100%
2014 43 0.000011602 43 -100%
2015 44 0.000011889 44 -100%
2016 35 0.00000954 35 -100%
2017 29 0.000008109 29 -100%
2018 24 0.000006826 24 -100%
2019 31 0.000008931 31 -100%
2020 23 0.000006885 23 -100%
2021 33 0.00000974 33 -100%
2022 24 0.000007094 24 -100%
2023 25 0.00000755 25 -100%
2024 30 0.000009013 30 -100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Theseus:

  1. Therse
  2. Thersea
  3. Thersia
  4. Theryn
  5. Thesa
  6. Theseus (this page)
  7. Thesha
  8. Thessalonia
  9. Thessaly
  10. Theta
  11. Thetis