Tewodros

given name · Amharic · Latin script

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

Tewodros is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is the 74th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Amharic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ethiopian/Amharic: version of Theodore, 'gift of God'.

rarermore common
  • ETEthiopia1 in 2K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 453K
  • SESweden1 in 82K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈890 ●

across 4 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
103 ●

5.1K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 82K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

TewodrosLatin · Amharic●3K records
ቴዎድሮስEthiopic · Amharic●790 records

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●

Ethiopian/Amharic: version of Theodore, 'gift of God'

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Tewodros is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ET Ethiopia#741,9501.5K rec.——Tewodros37
US United States—7342.6K rec.1 in 453K734Tewodros103
GB United Kingdom—148116 rec.——Tewodros22
SE Sweden—125538 rec.1 in 82K125Tewodros10
CA Canada—6571 rec.—1Tewodros17
ZA South Africa—5051 rec.——Tewodros6
AU Australia—4852 rec.—1Tewodros18
NL Netherlands—2620 rec.——Tewodros8
PL Poland—17△2 rec.1 in 2.3M17Tewodros5
FI Finland—140 rec.1 in 398K39—3
CN China—122 rec.——Tewodros8
IL Israel—1113 rec.——Tewodros2

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Amharic3K42%
  • English1.7K24%
  • 1.2K17%
  • Arabic2353%
  • Spanish1652%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Amharic3,03242%
English1,70924%
1,21417%
Arabic2353%
Spanish1652%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Tewodros is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name1.4K records spelled Tewodros2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, United States

    Also written Téwodros

39 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.

Over time●

020406020002005201020152020

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Tewodros in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199915
200015
200115
200215
200315
200419
200520
200620
200722
200824
200928
201034
201135
201237
201341
201444
201541
201642
201745
201846
201949
202051

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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 18 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Tewodros
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020734#15,613
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020372#58,829
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010132#129,047
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—125#7,340
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202051—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201949—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201846—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201745—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201444—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201642—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201541—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201341—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 43 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tewodros?
We estimate roughly 890 people bear Tewodros (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Tewodros have the most bearers?
Tewodros is most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is most often spelled tewodros.
How common is Tewodros compared with other names?
In Ethiopia, Tewodros is the 74th most common given name of 35,068 given names recorded there.
Is Tewodros a male or female name?
Tewodros 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 Tewodros mean?
Recorded meaning: Ethiopian/Amharic: version of Theodore, 'gift of God'
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Tewodros” — the 74th most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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