Girls' name · since 1973
Tekeshia
Tekeshia has 103 recorded births since 1973 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1975 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #26,834 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 103
- born since 1973
- 1980s
- peak decade
Tekeshia is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 103 have been recorded since 1973.
Tekeshia has 103 recorded births among girls since 1973, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1973 to 1990.
- #26,834 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 103 born since 1973
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Tekeshia ranks #26,834 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 103 born since 1973, peaking in the 1980s.
- #26,834 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 103
- born since 1973
- 1980s
- peak decade
Tekeshia's 103 recorded births place it above 62.88% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Tekeshia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Tekeshia's full recorded timeline at 1981, 47% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 53% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1984, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1975 peak of 11 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Tekeshia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1973–1990
- Peak year (1975)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 18 years of records
Tekeshia by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (51 births, 50% of the file).
1980s was Tekeshia's strongest decade.
51 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 50% of all-time use.
Tekeshia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
46 births
- 1980s
1980s
51 births
- 1990s 6
1990s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 51 births (50% of all-time use).
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- Tekeshia's decade-level peak was the 1980s (51 total births); usage has since declined to 6 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Tekeshia: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1975)
Similar record span (~17 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1973–1990 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Tekeshia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.