The Theobald surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,300 people carried this name — #7,720 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 68,500 people counted. That is up 3% from 4,172 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 592 people named Theobald.
39 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 35 départements, most often Moselle.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
40 people named Theobald live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Theobald in American newspapers,
1914.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 28,745 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Theobald,
with a public archive behind them.
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Zacharias Theobald 1584–1627 · historian -
Lewis Theobald 1688–1744 · writer -
Gottfried Theobald 1810–1869 · naturalist -
Stephen Theobald d. 1619 · politician
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Mabel Helen Theobald d. 1947
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Zacharias Theobald 1549–1613 · Protestant theologian
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Theobald.
- Theis 6,425 · U.S. census
- Theisen 5,707 · U.S. census
- Theiss 2,619 · U.S. census
- Thelemaque 339 · U.S. census
- Thelin 350 · U.S. census
- Theo 207 · U.S. census
- Theodore 4,601 · U.S. census
- Theodule 235 · U.S. census
- Theophile 375 · U.S. census
- Theriot 6,424 · U.S. census
- Theron 181 · U.S. census
- Thery 128 · U.S. census
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