THEODORE
THEE-uh-dor
Theodore means “gift of God.”
Meaning
Theodore comes from the Greek elements theos, meaning “God,” and doron, meaning “gift,” so the name literally means “gift of God.” The excerpts also note related continental forms such as Teodoro, Teodor, and Theodor, and connect the name with Saint Theodore, which helped spread it in Christian Europe.
Origin
Greekmasculine
Fun fact
The Welsh form Tewdwr is cited as a sound-shifted relative of Theodore in one of the excerpts.
Confidence: sourced. Sources: History of Christian Names, Praenomina; or, the etymology of the principal Christian names of Great Britain and Ireland.