Theodoros

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Θεόδωρος (Theódoros)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/θiːədɒɹəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Theodoros is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 22nd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 131as Theodorus(measured from records)
  • CYCyprus1 in 474as Θεοδωρος
  • SESweden1 in 824as Theodor

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Theodoros itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

141,175 named Theodore, 2020

#842 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
533 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 131 (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands, as Theodorus

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

TheodoreLatin(measured from records)
ΘεοδωροςGreek(measured from records)
ธโอดอรThai(measured from records)
시어도어Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Theodore in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IT Italy and 2 more, Theodor in DE Germany, NO Norway, SE Sweden and Theodorus in NL Netherlands.

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 Greek theos 'god' + doron 'gift'

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

How Theodoros is read(measured from records)

Theodoros is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Greek51%

    from Greek theos 'god' + doron 'gift'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • English22%

    A transliteration of the Greek male given name Θεόδωρος (Theódoros).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Theodoros in German.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Theodoros 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.

Where Theodoros is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#342141,175as Theodore1 in 2.4K141KTheodore533
NL Netherlands#568131,561as Theodorus1 in 131131KTheodorus80
DE Germany#374≈28,000 est.≈1 in 2.9K1Theodor160
GB United Kingdom#425≈23,000 est.≈1 in 2.8K2.8KTheodore202
IT Italy#692≈16,000 est.≈1 in 3.9K10Theodore38
SE Sweden#99212,377as Theodor1 in 82412KTheodor54
NO Norway—5,460as Theodor1 in 1K20KTheodor33
DK Denmark—4,020as Theodor1 in 1.5K4KTheodore32
CY Cyprus#1432,672as Θεοδωρος1 in 4742.7KTheodoros71
JM Jamaica#22≈1,800 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Theodore12

141,175 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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); ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Theodoros is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Theōdoros, Theodōros, Theodôros, Theodo̲ros, Théodoros

  • Russian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Cyprus, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Теодорос, Teodoros, Тхеодорос

  • Bulgarian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Russia, Croatia, Cyprus

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Теодорос, Teodoros

  • Hebrew given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Cyprus, Israel, Netherlands, Ethiopia

    Also written תאודורוס, Theodorus

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Theodoros is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, accusative plural of Theodorus

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

0500100015002000Theodore of Mopsuestia, b. 350Theodoros of Cyrene, b. 465Theodore the Studite, b. 759Theodore I Laskaris, b. 1174Theodore II Laskaris, b. 1221Theodoros Kolokotronis, b. 1770Theodoros Pangalos, b. 1878Theodoros Pangalos, b. 1938Pope Theodoros II of Alexandria, b. 1952Teodor Currentzis, b. 1972

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 39 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Theodoros
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020699#16,237
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—262#4,319
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019228—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2018224—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020221—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2017219—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2016209—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2015201—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2014196—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2013193—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2012177—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2011167—

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Theodoros come from?
from Greek theos 'god' + doron 'gift' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
How do you pronounce Theodoros?
A machine transcription gives /θiːədɒɹəs/ (IPA) for Greek.
What does the name Theodoros mean?
In English, A transliteration of the Greek male given name Θεόδωρος (Theódoros).
In which country does Theodoros have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 141 thousand people named Theodore, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Theodoros most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Theodoros itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Netherlands's: the national register counts about 1 in 131 people named Theodorus.
Is Theodoros a male or female name?
Theodoros is a male 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.
What are other forms of the name Theodoros?
In the etymology graph, Theodore, Teodoro and Theodor are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Theodoros?
In the United States, the national register counted 141,175 people named Theodore in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
How common is Theodoros compared with other names?
In the United States, Theodoros is the 342nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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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, “Theodoros” — the 342nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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