Tehani
Tehani was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,699 among girls’ names; 588 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tehani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tehani mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tehani is “a female given name.” Its etymology gives the senses “the” (te) and “darling” (hani).
Tahitian te (“the”) + hani (“darling”)
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tehani?
#5,699 among girls’ names, 2025
Tehani rose from #10,793 in 2015 to #5,699 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 13.7 per million.
26 babies in 2006, the peak
Tehani peaked in 2006, when 26 girls were given it, #5,365 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,699 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,561 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 14 | #8,011 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,998 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,934 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,530 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,988 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,115 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,776 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,943 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,793 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,917 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,182 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,551 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,156 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,604 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,843 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,043 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,703 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,365 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,419 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,740 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,777 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,071 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,045 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,133 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,405 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,067 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,737 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,511 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,241 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,552 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 11 | #8,003 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,391 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,234 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,806 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,692 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,698 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,666 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,200 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,744 | 5.9 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,147 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,015 | 3.0 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,493 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tehani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tehani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tehani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tehani, and how old are they?
An estimated 581 Americans named Tehani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 468 people named Tehani (468 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 492 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 Tehani born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 6 | #165 | 115.7× |
Where Tehani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tehani is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1971 it was given 115.7 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 Tehani 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,820 babies since 1880, Tehani is the third most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 53 babies (42%), 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 Tehani
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 Tehani and names like it
- Compare Tehani and TeyanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTehani peaked in 2006.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tehani since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Tehani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tehani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.