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Thecla

Koine Greek roots

feminineLatin script

/θɛklə/ · English

Origin: Koine Greek
2 language contexts: English Latin
Follow the evidence: 7 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Thecla

Thecla is a feminine given name documented in English and Latin.

3 source accounts

Koine Greek origin

Source-reported

From Late Latin Thecla, from Koine Greek Θέκλα (Thékla), chiefly for St Thecla, an apocryphal early Christian martyr whose name might derive from hellenicization of a local Luwic name or from some contraction of θεο- (theo-, “God, God's, godly”) + -κλῆς (-klês, “glory”).

Sources for this account (3)

Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Russian Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Explore 2 more accountsHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

French Wiktionary accountSource-reportedDu grec ancien θεός, theós (« Dieu ») et κλέος, kléos (« gloire, renommée »).

Du grec ancien θεός, theós (« Dieu ») et κλέος, kléos (« gloire, renommée »).

Sources for this account (1)

French Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Polish Wiktionary accountSource-reportedgr.

gr.

Sources for this account (1)

Polish Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Thecla is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

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countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Thecla’s connections around the world.

4 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 1986: 5 girls (rank 10912). Documented as a given name in English.

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4 of 11 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Thecla

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 1986: 5; applications; Rank #10,912
Peak year: 1917; 18 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Thecla in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	5	1,276	observed
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	7	1,299	observed
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	6	1,502	observed
1899	6	1,394	observed
1900	5	1,932	observed
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	7	1,438	observed
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	5	1,951	observed
1907	5	2,061	observed
1908	5	2,101	observed
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	11	1,450	observed
1912	9	1,981	observed
1913	5	3,187	observed
1914	9	2,434	observed
1915	10	2,688	observed
1916	11	2,658	observed
1917	18	1,923	observed
1918	13	2,519	observed
1919	10	3,005	observed
1920	10	3,097	observed
1921	7	4,023	observed
1922	11	2,958	observed
1923	6	4,376	observed
1924	12	2,809	observed
1925	7	4,028	observed
1926	5	4,851	observed
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	6	4,195	observed
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	10	2,845	observed
1931	5	4,331	observed
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	5	4,204	observed
1936	6	3,701	observed
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	5	4,250	observed
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	5	5,243	observed
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	5	5,828	observed
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	5	6,086	observed
1958	6	5,408	observed
1959	7	5,031	observed
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	6	5,860	observed
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	5	10,912	observed
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Thecla” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Thecla— “divine fame”
Thecla, _f._ _Eng._ Gr. divine fame, 100
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

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06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q29550489CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates4

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Thecla

Thecla is a feminine given name documented in English and Latin.

3 source accounts

Koine Greek origin

Source-reported

Sources for this account (3)

Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Russian Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Explore 2 more accountsHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

French Wiktionary accountSource-reportedDu grec ancien θεός, theós (« Dieu ») et κλέος, kléos (« gloire, renommée »).

Du grec ancien θεός, theós (« Dieu ») et κλέος, kléos (« gloire, renommée »).

Sources for this account (1)

French Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Polish Wiktionary accountSource-reportedgr.

gr.

Sources for this account (1)

Polish Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Thecla is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Thecla’s connections around the world.

4 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 1986: 5 girls (rank 10912). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 11 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Thecla

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 1986: 5; applications; Rank #10,912
Peak year: 1917; 18 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Thecla in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	5	1,276	observed
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	7	1,299	observed
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	6	1,502	observed
1899	6	1,394	observed
1900	5	1,932	observed
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	7	1,438	observed
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	5	1,951	observed
1907	5	2,061	observed
1908	5	2,101	observed
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	11	1,450	observed
1912	9	1,981	observed
1913	5	3,187	observed
1914	9	2,434	observed
1915	10	2,688	observed
1916	11	2,658	observed
1917	18	1,923	observed
1918	13	2,519	observed
1919	10	3,005	observed
1920	10	3,097	observed
1921	7	4,023	observed
1922	11	2,958	observed
1923	6	4,376	observed
1924	12	2,809	observed
1925	7	4,028	observed
1926	5	4,851	observed
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	6	4,195	observed
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	10	2,845	observed
1931	5	4,331	observed
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	5	4,204	observed
1936	6	3,701	observed
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	5	4,250	observed
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	5	5,243	observed
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	5	5,828	observed
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	5	6,086	observed
1958	6	5,408	observed
1959	7	5,031	observed
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	6	5,860	observed
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	5	10,912	observed
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Thecla— “divine fame”
Thecla, _f._ _Eng._ Gr. divine fame, 100
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q29550489CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: TheclaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates4

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Thecla

About Thecla

Koine Greek origin

Where Thecla is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Thekla

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Thecla

About Thecla

Koine Greek origin

Where Thecla is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Thekla

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Thecla

Koine Greek origin

Where Thecla is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Thekla

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Thecla

Koine Greek origin

Where Thecla is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Thekla

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page