About the name Theodora
Theodora belongs to the Greek tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Theodora first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #506 in 1908, and in 2024 343 babies received the name — 12,267 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.