Teodor
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Czech: a male given name, equivalent to English Theodore
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/teodor/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Teodor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 3.7K
- USUnited States1 in 2.4Kas Theodore
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 Teodor 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- 1 in 743 (inferred from the name graph)
141,175 named Theodore, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
a male given name, equivalent to English Theodore
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Teodor is read(measured from records)
Teodor is one spelling over 6 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.
- Romanian18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Teodor in Romanian.
- Bulgarian16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Teodor in Bulgarian.
- Spanish11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Teodor in Spanish.
- English11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Teodor in English.
- Polish7.8%
as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
- Czech7.4%
a male given name, equivalent to English Theodore
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Teodor, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Teodor 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 141,175as Theodore | 1 in 2.4K | 141K | Teodor | 133 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 131,561as Theodorus | 1 in 131 | 131K | Teodor | 13 |
| RO Romania | #689 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Teodor | 52 |
| PL Poland | #431 | 10,273 | 1 in 3.7K | 10K | Teodor | 83 |
| SE Sweden | — | 5,843 | 1 in 1.7K | 5.8K | Teodor | 20 |
| BG Bulgaria | #119 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 575 | Teodor | 123 |
| MD Moldova | #768 | 4,529 | 1 in 743 | 4.5K | Teodor | 8 |
| MK North Macedonia | #319 | 1,766as Теодор | 1 in 1.2K | 1.8K | Teodor | 11 |
141,175 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling theodore. 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); NSI — popular newborn given names (annual press release); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); e-services.md — living population register; State Statistical Office — living population names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Teodor is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 78 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 10K | #172 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9.1K | #178 |
| 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 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 2K | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 825 | #14,263 |
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — newborn names (press release) | 2018 | 523 | #10 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 40 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 12 | #25,977 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #14,263 |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Teodor mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Theodore Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Teodor?
- A machine transcription gives /teodor/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- What are other forms of the name Teodor?
- In the etymology graph, Theodore, Ted and Teodoro are forms of the same name in other languages; Teo and Toše are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Teodor 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 Teodor most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Teodor is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 743 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- 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.
- How common is the name Teodor?
- In Poland, the national register counted 10,273 people named Teodor in 2026, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Teodor compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Teodor is the 119th most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/teodorThe 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, “Teodor” — the 119th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.