Thécla
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Thécla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the name of an apocryphal early Christian martyr, Ancient Greek Θεοκλεία (Theokleía), (from θεός (theós, “god”) + κλέος (kléos, “glory”)).
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 15K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 19K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Thecla in US United States, NL Netherlands, NG Nigeria and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the name of an apocryphal early Christian martyr, Ancient Greek Θεοκλεία (Theokleía), (from θεός (theós, “god”) + κλέος (kléos, “glory”)).
Sources 2
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thécla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Thecla | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,145 | 1 in 15K | 1.1K | Thecla | 30 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 206K | — | Thecla | 22 |
| US United States | 247 | 1 in 1.3M | 246 | Thecla | 120 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 652K | — | Thecla | 7 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 559K | — | Thecla | 11 |
| GY Guyana | 8 | 1 in 94K | 8 | Thecla | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 21 | #14,341 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Thécla mean, and where does it come from?
- From the name of an apocryphal early Christian martyr, Ancient Greek Θεοκλεία (Theokleía), (from θεός (theós, “god”) + κλέος (kléos, “glory”)). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Thécla a male or female name?
- Thécla is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Thécla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Thécla in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thecla.
- Where is Thécla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thécla is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though Tanzania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Thécla?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,145 people named Thécla, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Thécla?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/th%C3%A9claThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Thécla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.