Tela
Tela was last recorded in 2018, when 9 babies were given it; 700 Americans have been recorded with it between 1894 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tela?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,348, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1985, the peak
Tela peaked in 1985, when 45 girls were given it, #2,281 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 9 | #11,348 | 5.3 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,241 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,039 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,238 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,796 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,247 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,758 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,346 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,828 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,214 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 6 | #15,598 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,169 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,936 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,984 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,404 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,105 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,359 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,669 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 11 | #8,027 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,622 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,229 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,469 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,162 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 19 | #5,042 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,497 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,475 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,461 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,265 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,281 | 26.2 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,775 | 19.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,167 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,332 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,767 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,747 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,141 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,344 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,506 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,871 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,607 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,171 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,955 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,232 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,561 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,745 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,277 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,747 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,756 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,072 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,515 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,249 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,851 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,739 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,163 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #6,019 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,797 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,631 | 2.6 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,188 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,240 | 3.4 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,684 | 22.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tela has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 59 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tela, and how old are they?
An estimated 661 Americans named Tela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 28 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 675 people named Tela (649 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 670 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,537 babies since 1880, Tela is the fourth most given (15% of them). In 2025 none of their 53 babies recorded by SSA was a Tela (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Tela
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 Tela and names like it
- Compare Tela and TehilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTela peaked in 1985.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tela since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Tela.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tela alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.