Teena
Teena was last recorded in 2014, when 6 babies were given it; 5,746 Americans have been recorded with it between 1928 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,920 Americans named Teena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 52 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Teena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Teena mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Teena is “a female given name, variant of Tina.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Teena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,329, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
322 babies in 1956, the peak
Teena peaked in 1956, when 322 girls were given it, #521 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #16,329 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,324 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,943 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,196 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,587 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,500 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,930 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,051 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,168 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,859 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 9 | #10,660 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,669 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,303 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,602 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,701 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,197 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,684 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,806 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,218 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,196 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,427 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 47 | #2,472 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,531 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,429 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,111 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 146 | #1,036 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 71 | #1,592 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,811 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 92 | #1,354 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 122 | #1,133 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,883 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,214 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,234 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 54 | #1,874 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 60 | #1,659 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 62 | #1,603 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 106 | #1,102 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 88 | #1,219 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 100 | #1,115 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 141 | #926 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 102 | #1,143 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 116 | #1,006 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 133 | #897 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 130 | #900 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 156 | #791 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 184 | #737 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 194 | #749 | 0.10 |
| 1963 | 197 | #731 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 245 | #649 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 182 | #779 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 221 | #686 | 0.11 |
| 1959 | 246 | #635 | 0.12 |
| 1958 | 273 | #601 | 0.14 |
| 1957 | 263 | #602 | 0.13 |
| 1956 | 322 | #521 | 0.16 |
| 1955 | 233 | #605 | 0.12 |
| 1954 | 108 | #930 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 96 | #978 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 97 | #952 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 93 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 56 | #1,238 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 66 | #1,117 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 58 | #1,192 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 64 | #1,124 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 52 | #1,204 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 36 | #1,351 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 40 | #1,270 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,697 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,197 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,182 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,124 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,787 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,250 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,353 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Teena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Teena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Teena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Teena, and how old are they?
4,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 5,746 Americans ever recorded as Teena. The median Teena alive today is 62 years old; half are between 52 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 5,268 people named Teena (5,257 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,164 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 72 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,470 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,450 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 810 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 106 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
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 Teena born?
The states with the most babies named Teena are California, Texas and Illinois, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 400 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 387 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 248 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 237 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 207 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 186 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 180 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 162 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 157 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 124 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Teena is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Teena is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1928 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Teena 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,564 babies since 1880, Teena is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 none of their 55 babies recorded by SSA was a Teena (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Teena
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 Teena and names like it
- Compare Teena and TenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sTeena peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Teena since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Teena.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Teena alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.