Tehya
Tehya was given to 10 girls in 2025, #10,041 among girls’ names; 2,061 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,040 Americans named Tehya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tehya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tehya?
#10,041 among girls’ names, 2025
Tehya fell from #4,971 in 2015 to #10,041 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 6.2 per million.
164 babies in 1998, the peak
Tehya peaked in 1998, when 164 girls were given it, #1,153 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,041 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,893 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,242 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,597 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,935 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,361 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,056 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,116 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 21 | #6,018 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,593 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,971 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,539 | 17.9 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,843 | 22.8 |
| 2012 | 68 | #2,650 | 38.6 |
| 2011 | 84 | #2,257 | 47.8 |
| 2010 | 97 | #2,057 | 54.6 |
| 2009 | 80 | #2,421 | 43.5 |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,555 | 39.1 |
| 2007 | 72 | #2,595 | 37.4 |
| 2006 | 110 | #1,860 | 57.9 |
| 2005 | 107 | #1,834 | 57.9 |
| 2004 | 140 | #1,457 | 76.2 |
| 2003 | 133 | #1,473 | 72.8 |
| 2002 | 99 | #1,817 | 55.1 |
| 2001 | 82 | #2,059 | 45.5 |
| 2000 | 127 | #1,451 | 69.9 |
| 1999 | 159 | #1,203 | 89.6 |
| 1998 | 164 | #1,153 | 92.8 |
| 1997 | 120 | #1,402 | 68.9 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,081 | 22.2 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,484 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,053 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,922 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,427 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,052 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,229 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tehya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tehya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tehya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tehya, and how old are they?
2,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,061 Americans ever recorded as Tehya. The median Tehya alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,694 people named Tehya (1,693 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,969 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 95 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 246 |
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 Tehya born?
The states with the most babies named Tehya are California, Texas and Oregon, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oregon is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 210 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 55 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oregon | 48 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Washington | 46 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 39 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 39 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Hawaii | 35 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| Wisconsin | 31 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 26 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Tehya 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 7,345 babies since 1880, Tehya is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 56 babies (18%), the third 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 Tehya
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 Tehya and names like it
- Compare Tehya and TeaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTehya peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tehya since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Tehya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tehya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.