Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Theseus through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 442
- 442 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 44 babies
- 2025
- 19
- #5,181 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −8%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 19 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 5,181 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 7.7% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 44 in 2015.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Theseus’s family of names
Theseus has a related form in Thesius. Theseus has a related form in Thesyus.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Appears in
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