Tecia
Tecia was last recorded in 1997, when 5 babies were given it; 123 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tecia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tecia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,935, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1970, the peak
Tecia peaked in 1970, when 13 girls were given it, #4,468 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #15,935 | 2.9 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,697 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,420 | 5.3 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,103 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,797 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,473 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,533 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,156 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,321 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,516 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 8 | #6,567 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,468 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,396 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,183 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,987 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,227 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,458 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tecia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tecia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tecia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tecia, and how old are they?
An estimated 115 Americans named Tecia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 47 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 191 people named Tecia (191 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 117 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Tecia?
Tecia is a less common spelling of Tesia: SSA has recorded 123 Tecia and 1,081 Tesia since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,817 babies since 1880, Tecia is the fourth most given (6.8% of them).
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 Tecia
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 Tecia and names like it
- Compare Tecia and TesiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTecia peaked in 1970.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tecia since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Tecia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tecia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.