Tea
Tea was given to 10 girls in 2025, #10,039 among girls’ names; 2,493 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,460 Americans named Tea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tea mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Tea is “a female given name”
Diminutive of Swedish Dorotea.
/ˈteɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tea?
#10,039 among girls’ names, 2025
Tea fell from #3,981 in 2015 to #10,039 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.3 to 6.2 per million.
290 babies in 1998, the peak
Tea peaked in 1998, when 290 girls were given it, #749 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,039 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,559 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,647 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,157 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,148 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,606 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,155 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,767 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,173 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,833 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,981 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,646 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,510 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,164 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,509 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,725 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,483 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 94 | #2,155 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 83 | #2,327 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 117 | #1,787 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 114 | #1,738 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 93 | #1,995 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 140 | #1,420 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 199 | #1,071 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 138 | #1,382 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 105 | #1,684 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 167 | #1,165 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 290 | #749 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 261 | #796 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,494 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,692 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,733 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,182 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,388 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,142 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,998 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,992 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,155 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tea, and how old are they?
2,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,493 Americans ever recorded as Tea. The median Tea alive today is 24 years old; half are between 18 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,922 people named Tea (2,767 women and girls, 155 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,368 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Tea rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 92 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 316 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Tea born?
The states with the most babies named Tea are California, New York and Texas, with 48% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 324 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 166 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 132 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 94 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 60 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 55 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 49 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 48 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 45 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 34 | not ranked | 0.8× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tea with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 8,754 babies since 1880, Tea is the most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 56 babies (18%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tea
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tea and names like it
- Compare Tea and TehyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTea peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tea since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Tea: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Tea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.