Thea
Top 1000
About Thea
Succinct and stylish, sweet but vivacious, multicultural and versatile, Thea has a lot going for it. A Top 100 choice in Sweden, France, Norway, New Zealand, and the UK, it is also familiar in Czechia, Germany, Belgium, and Denmark.
There are a number of ways you can look at Thea, one being as a diminutive of names ending (or starting) with thea. As such, it could come from Dorothea or Theodora ("gift of god"), Theresa ("harvest"), Althea ("healing"), Anthea ("flower"), Alethea ("truth"), Mathea ("gift of Yahweh"), Theano ("goddess"), or Timothea ("honoring god").
Alternatively, you could consider it an Anglicized spelling of Theia, Titan of goddess of light, sight, and glory, and the mother of the moon. She was the consort of Hyperion, and the mother of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
Pronounced as THEE-uh, TEH-ah, and THAY-uh, depending on preference and language, Thea recently ranked in the US Top 400, alongside Elora, Ariel, and Aylin.
Pronounced THAY-uh.
As of October 2026, Thea ranked #353 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #268 in 2017, Nameberry popularity #101.
Editor's take: The name Thea is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "goddess, godly".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #770 | 364 | 203.8 |
| 2015 | #464 | 688 | 385.4 |
| 2016 | #291 | 1,121 | 632.6 |
| 2017 | #268 | 1,192 | 690.4 |
| 2018 | #273 | 1,208 | 710.1 |
| 2019 | #293 | 1,142 | 680.4 |
| 2020 | #304 | 1,069 | 661.3 |
| 2021 | #314 | 1,033 | 629.5 |
| 2022 | #300 | 1,065 | 649.3 |
| 2023 | #321 | 973 | 606.4 |
| 2024 | #348 | 893 | 551.2 |
| 2025 | #353 | 867 | 539.4 |
World rankings
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Thea on lists
Famous Theas
- Bertha "Thea" Bowman
American Catholic sister
- Thea Vidale
American actress/comedienne
- Thea Louise Gill
Canadian actress
- Thea Gregory (born Iva Reddish)
English actress
- Thea Eve Gilmore
English singer,songwriter
- Thea Dale Muldoon
First Lady of New Zealand as wife of P.M. Robert Muldoon
- Thea Megan Trinidad
American pro wrestler
- Dorothea Jessie "Thea" Stabell
Norwegian actress
- Dorothea Noelle Naomi "Thea" Porter
British fashion designer, an architect of Bohemian Chic
- Thea Gabriele von Harbou
German actress and screenwriter
- Thea Garrett
Maltese singer
- Thea Chenelle Pineda (b. 2012)
daughter of singer Arnel Pineda of band Journey
- Thea Gabriel (b. 2017)
daughter of Sigmar Gabriel, Vice Chancellor of Germany
- Maeve Thea Rosa
Daughter of YouTube family vloggers Tara and Mandi Rosa of Living Rosa
Thea in pop culture
- Thea Kronborg
protagonist in The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
- Thea Galehouse
main character of Hooked by Catherine Greenman
- Thea Dearden Queen
sister of Oliver Queen on TV's "Arrow"
- Thea Harman
witch from L.J. Smith's Night World series
- Thea Grant
character on show "Heartland"
- Thea was a main character in First Light
a novel by Rebecca Stead
- Theodora "Thea" Atwell
character in "The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls"
- Thea
a siren in Amanda Hocking's "Wake"
- Thea
a character in Frank Wedekind's "Spring Awakening"
- Thea Stilton
character in novels "Geronimo Stilton" and "Thea Stilton", as well as the TV series "Geronimo Stilton"
- Thea Calligaris
character in novel series "The Inheritance Games"
- Thea Clayhill
main character in movie “Labor Pains”