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Do you think this name is common? Or it will become very common?

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Jade4747 · 23/11/2018 01:39

Thea.

I've recently heard the name Thea, and it sounds so lovely and mystical. However, I've heard that it's been rapidly gaining popularity over the last few years, which worries me because I don't want a name that will be eventually be common. I'm not searching for a name that's ultra rare, but I think it's nicer to have a slightly unique name. What do you guys think?

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userabcname · 23/11/2018 17:56

I know a couple of babies called Thea and met quite a few at baby/toddler groups last year. Not wildly popular but not uncommon.

BackIntoTheSun · 23/11/2018 18:05

I only know one and I think it's a lovely name

seven201 · 23/11/2018 18:06

It's quite popular where I live and getting more so. I wanted to call dd it but dh wasn't keen.

TheAuthoress · 23/11/2018 18:17

I have a Thea, she's 5. She's the only one in her school, to the best of my knowledge, but I know of two more, one born the week before her in the same hospital! I still love it as much as I did when I chose it for her

liquidrevolution · 23/11/2018 18:25

DD has a Theano in her class which is similar but unusual.

daisypond · 23/11/2018 18:44

I like it. I know one who's about 40 and a younger one who's about 15. I suppose as the male version Theo/Theodore is popular, it's not surprising if Thea or Theodora is becoming more popular as well.

doorhandledog · 23/11/2018 18:47

Personally I don't get this obsession with not having a name that is popular. It's popular because lots of people like it. What's so bad with that?!

vintagechick43 · 23/11/2018 18:55

My DD who is 27 is called Thea. When she was born no one had heard the name before and it certainly raised a few eyebrows!! It is definitely more common now. We pronounce it Thee-a but she quite often gets called fee-a.

Cosmoa · 23/11/2018 18:55

Personally I don't get this obsession with not having a name that is popular. It's popular because lots of people like it. What's so bad with that?!

It gets very boring...

Bythebeach · 23/11/2018 19:34

doorhandledog, surely the primary purpose of a name is as an identifier and if every other bugger (or at least several in each of school year) has the same name, it doesn’t fulfil its purpose. My poor husband has a super popular name of his era and even now at 40 goes to meetings where there are several with his name.....so when someone says his name in the office/at rugby club/at a party etc, more than one person turns to answer. Not the end of the world but not helpful either.

Greensleeves · 23/11/2018 19:37

It's a beautiful name. I don't think I've ever come across one IRL, as a teacher or anywhere else, so it can't be all that popular. There was a long-standing MNer whose daughters all had beautiful names, one of which was Thea, so I always think of her when I see it :)

hoki · 23/11/2018 19:46

I know two under 4 and depending on your accent it can be hard to pronounce.

SovietKitsch · 23/11/2018 20:42

I know three Theas, all of them are 14 months old!

celticmissey · 23/11/2018 20:47

It's lovely but they are quite a few of them where I live so becoming more common

needmorespace · 23/11/2018 20:59

I have a beautiful 27yo niece called Thea - I chose it [natch]
It's beautiful and if I hadn't suggested it for my niece I would definitely have used it for my own dtr

midsomermurderess · 23/11/2018 21:00

Theo is short for Theodore, God given/Gift of God, not 'God'.

Nightmanagerfan · 23/11/2018 21:06

I’m in London and I know three baby Theas. It can also be short for Dorothea

Ketzele · 23/11/2018 21:06

I know one Thea, an adult. It's a lovely name.

But I agree about not overthinking it. The year I was pregnant with dd1, her name was number 41 in the charts. Great, I thought, not too popular. It jumped to the top 10 the following year, and has been in the top 3 pretty much ever since. Sometimes there's just something in the water.

It bothered me for a bit. But it doesn't bother her (now a teenager). And, you know, half the girls I was at school with were called Karen or Sharon and they don't seem mentally scarred.

holasoydora · 23/11/2018 21:09

Thea is lovely. I only know one, an adult.

I’m an ahead of my time ‘Ava’ (not Ava). It’s not bothered me in the slightest that there are four million younger ones than me. In fact I come across them fairly rarely (unless at an eight year old’s party).

I’d just pick whatever name you like best and not worry about it.

tryinganewname · 23/11/2018 21:12

It's my 4 month old daughter's name so naturally, I adore it. I haven't met anyone else with the same name at baby groups etc. And it is outside the top 100 but, as I tell people her name I have had a dew 'oh, I know so and so's daughter is called Thea'.

I don't think it will gain too much popularity but I do think it's more popular down south than where I am in Yorkshire.

CrackersDontMatter · 23/11/2018 21:14

I know three Theas. Two are under 5 and one is 36.

tryinganewname · 23/11/2018 21:17

Also, I've yet to meet anyone who pronounces it any differently than 'Thee-ah' and it sounds fine in a Yorkshire accent

It's just outside the top 50, not 100 as I said. Midwife who delivered said she'd never heard of it though so that pleased me, I have an unusual name myself as do all my family so I didn't want anything popular.

MelanieCheeks · 23/11/2018 21:17

Gorgeous name. Currently listening to Thea Gilmore on spotify.

KaroB · 23/11/2018 21:24

I went to school with one; she'll be in her late 30s by now. I think I've heard to one recent baby Thea via Facebook and that's all. Quite a few baby (boy) Theos knocking about these days though!

OhComeOnRon · 23/11/2018 21:40

Love it OP this is my name choice if we have a girl in January!

My DD has a name that is climbing the popular list but is still the only one in her year at school (she's 4)

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