Thea is a short form of Dorothea and Theodora, both meaning "gift of God", and it is also the Greek word for "goddess". In Greek mythology Theia was the Titaness of sight and the shining sky, mother of the sun, the moon and the dawn. Thea entered the US top 1000 in 2014, shot up to number 268 in 2017 and has stayed at about that level, ranking number 353 in 2025.