Seth Gabel and Bryce Dallas Howard raised Theodore Norman Howard-Gabel in Los Angeles, California. His father was Jewish, and his mother is Native American Cherokee, Dutch, English, French, German, Irish, and Scottish. He is the grandson of actor-director Ron Howard and writer Cheryl Alley through his mother, the great-grandson of Rance Howard and Jean Speegle Howard, the great-nephew Clint Howard, and the nephew of Paige Howard, Jocelyn Howard, and Reed Howard.