Telia
Telia was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,826 among girls’ names; 709 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Telia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Telia?
#11,826 among girls’ names, 2025
Telia rose from #12,898 in 2015 to #11,826 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 5.0 per million.
34 babies in 1984, the peak
Telia peaked in 1984, when 34 girls were given it, #2,723 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,826 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,376 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,517 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,928 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,498 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,746 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,784 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,898 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,274 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,344 | 9.7 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 9 | #12,118 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,048 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,175 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,424 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,383 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,967 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,675 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,860 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,215 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,364 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,093 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,697 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,471 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,457 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,560 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,697 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,085 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,473 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,076 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,500 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,279 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,637 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,523 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,520 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,291 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,285 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 21 | #4,014 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,234 | 16.3 |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,723 | 20.2 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,864 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,836 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,868 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,961 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,651 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,346 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,918 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,872 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,944 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,651 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,658 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,493 | 6.0 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,746 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,749 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,431 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,796 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,787 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,130 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,113 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,424 | 2.7 |
| 1941 | 5 | #5,013 | 4.1 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,171 | 4.4 |
| 1921 | 6 | #5,033 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Telia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Telia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Telia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Telia, and how old are they?
An estimated 673 Americans named Telia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 20 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 638 people named Telia (631 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 659 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below 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 4,552 babies since 1880, Telia is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 53 babies (15%), the second 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 Telia
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 Telia and names like it
- Compare Telia and TehilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTelia peaked in 1984.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Telia since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Telia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Telia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.