Teja — unisex name

What the Data Says About Teja

The Social Security Administration has registered 571 babies named Teja between 1978 and 2016, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Teja currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 75 babies received it in a single year. Teja is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 73 additional births since 1998.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Teja performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 285 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Teja shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Teja in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Teja 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 571 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.