Teela — girls' name

What the Data Says About Teela

The Social Security Administration has registered 841 babies named Teela between 1948 and 2022, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Teela currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1984, when 175 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Teela performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 509 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Teela shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 37 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Teela in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Teela 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 841 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.