Teodor
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Teodor is a given name, most frequently recorded in Peru. In Trinidad & Tobago it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and Romanian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Theodore.
- TTTrinidad & Tobago1 in 36◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 132
- SESweden1 in 824
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈343K ●
- #806 ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 478 ●
- 1 in 132 ◐
across 10 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
2.2M records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
4 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Theodore in US United States, FR France, GB United Kingdom and 7 more, Teodoro in BR Brazil, PE Peru, AR Argentina and 7 more, Theodor in DE Germany, AT Austria, SE Sweden and Теодор in UA Ukraine, RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a male given name, equivalent to English Theodore
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #211 | 154,036 | 131K rec. | — | — | Teodoro | 61 |
| US United States | #329 | 140,942 | 1.4M rec. | 1 in 2.4K | 141K | Theodore | 478 |
| NL Netherlands | #23 | 130,615△ | 4.4K rec. | 1 in 132 | 131K | Theodorus | 69 |
| AR Argentina | #558 | 104,714 | 78K rec. | — | 164 | Teodoro | 62 |
| MX Mexico | #460 | 71,986 | 73K rec. | — | 279 | Teodoro | 127 |
| GB United Kingdom | #384 | 71,629 | 67K rec. | — | 2.8K | Theodore | 157 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | #12 | 65,713 | 146 rec. | — | — | Theodore | 8 |
| DE Germany | #351 | 57,254 | 42K rec. | — | 2 | Theodor | 149 |
| PH Philippines | #399 | 55,069 | 65K rec. | — | — | Teodoro | 77 |
| AU Australia | #382 | 49,299 | 25K rec. | — | 1.1K | Theodore | 150 |
| VE Venezuela | #595 | 41,483 | 18K rec. | — | 7.5K | Teodoro | 35 |
| CA Canada | #315 | 40,966 | 27K rec. | — | 187 | Theodore | 143 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Polish64K40%
- Romanian14K9%
- Finnish12K8%
- Czech12K7%
- Bulgarian12K7%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 63,622 | 40% |
| Romanian | 14,124 | 9% |
| Finnish | 12,181 | 8% |
| Czech | 11,861 | 7% |
| Bulgarian | 11,678 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Teodor is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, Theodore
as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
In French, Variante de Théodore, du grec theodoros, « don de Dieu ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Russian, Teodor Skumin Tyshkevich, warden. 1608.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Serbo-Croatian, osobno ime
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1976 | 4 |
| 1980 | 4 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1989 | 4 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1993 | 8 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 8 |
| 1996 | 13 |
| 1997 | 10 |
| 1998 | 16 |
| 1999 | 19 |
| 2000 | 31 |
| 2001 | 30 |
| 2002 | 31 |
| 2003 | 47 |
| 2004 | 54 |
| 2005 | 59 |
| 2006 | 64 |
| 2007 | 64 |
| 2008 | 77 |
| 2009 | 74 |
| 2010 | 69 |
| 2011 | 78 |
| 2012 | 77 |
| 2013 | 71 |
| 2014 | 65 |
| 2015 | 75 |
| 2016 | 72 |
| 2017 | 53 |
| 2018 | 76 |
| 2019 | 54 |
| 2020 | 41 |
| 2021 | 48 |
| 2022 | 50 |
| 2023 | 47 |
| 2024 | 51 |
| 2025 | 50 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 39 years between 1976–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Theodor Fontaneb. 1819DEnot in their usual nameGerman novelist and poet (1819–1898)
- Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorellb. 1830SESwedish arachnologist (1830-1901)
- Joseph Conradb. 1857UAnot in their usual namePolish-British writer (1857–1924)
- Teodor Axentowiczb. 1859PLPolish artist (1859-1938)
- Teodor Teodorovb. 1859BGBulgarian politician (1859-1924)
- Felix Hamrinb. 1875SEnot in their usual nameSwedish 20th century prime minister (1875-1937)
- Teodor Meleșcanub. 1941RORomanian politician
- Andrzej Sewerynb. 1946PLnot in their usual namePolish-French actor
- Pope Theodoros II of Alexandriab. 1952EGnot in their usual name118th pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
- Teodor Corbanb. 1957RORomanian actor
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 75 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 15K | #102 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9.1K | #178 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 6.2K | #565 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5.8K | #561 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 4.5K | #182 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 3.8K | #743 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2.7K | #333 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 2K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 1.7K | — |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 1.3K | #374 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 825 | #14,263 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 802 | #3,324 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 506 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Teodor?
- We estimate roughly 343 thousand people bear Teodor (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Teodor have the most bearers?
- Teodor is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled teodoro.
- How common is Teodor compared with other names?
- In Peru, Teodor is the 211th most common given name of 221,790 given names recorded there.
- Is Teodor a male or female name?
- Teodor 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 does the name Teodor mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Theodore
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Teodor” — the 211th most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.