Tee — boys' name
407 babies named Tee in U.S. Social Security records since 1910, with the highest year being 1984. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
22% of everyone ever named Tee was born in this single decade.
12 babies were named Tee in 1984 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tee
The Social Security Administration has registered 407 babies named Tee between 1910 and 2023, spanning 114 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tee currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1984, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Tee is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 51 additional births since 1928.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tee performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 91 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Tee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tee in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tee in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 407 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Tee at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tee popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1910
- Peak year (1984)
- 12
- Annual births at peak — across 114 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
407 total births across 114 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1984 with 12 births in a single year.
Tee popularity over time — girls
51 total births recorded since 1928 (Tee as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Tee accounts for 11% of total recorded use across both genders.
Tee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 91 births that decade — 22% of Tee's all-time total
Tee decade highlights
- Peak decade 91 births
- Runner-up 54 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Tee's strongest decade
91 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 22% of all-time use.
Tee by state
Where Tee concentrates geographically — total births since 1910
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Mississippi | | 5 | 1.2% |
5 of 407 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Mississippi 1.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Mississippi accounts for 1.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1910–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.