Tehila
Tehila was given to 45 girls in 2025, #3,449 among girls’ names; 937 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tehila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tehila?
#3,449 among girls’ names, 2025
Tehila rose from #5,439 in 2015 to #3,449 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.0 to 28.0 per million.
50 babies in 2023, the peak
Tehila peaked in 2023, when 50 girls were given it, #3,266 among girls’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,449 | 28.0 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,753 | 25.3 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,266 | 31.2 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,191 | 21.3 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,485 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,997 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,998 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,876 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,759 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,119 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,439 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 28 | #5,014 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,876 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,239 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,902 | 16.5 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,959 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,920 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,165 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,067 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,107 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,505 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,803 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 20 | #6,030 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,879 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,196 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,535 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,163 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,526 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,243 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,505 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 13 | #7,000 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,621 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 11 | #8,004 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,454 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,985 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,107 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,348 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,774 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,321 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tehila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tehila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tehila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tehila, and how old are they?
An estimated 928 Americans named Tehila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 615 people named Tehila (607 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 688 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Tehila born?
The states with the most babies named Tehila are New Jersey, New York and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 14 | #570 | 4.8× |
| New York | 13 | #1,158 | 6.8× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,868 | 0.5× |
Where Tehila is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tehila is most over-represented in New York: since 1985 it was given 6.8 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 Tehila 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 4,939 babies since 1880, Tehila is the most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 78 babies (58%), again the most given.
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 Tehila
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 Tehila and names like it
- Compare Tehila and TeelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTehila peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tehila since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Tehila.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tehila alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.