It is a hypocoristic for foreign names that begin with Theo- , which in English would be Teo- . Some variants, such as the French Théo (tjeó) are used as a given name. Depending on each case, the origin may be Greek by 952; 949; 959; 962; (teós "god, of God"), Germanic for þeud (zeud "people, people"), or even Nahuatl for te 333; ("divinity of heaven") .
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