Tellie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Tellie

The Social Security Administration has registered 52 babies named Tellie between 1900 and 1976, spanning 77 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tellie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1976. The name reached its historical peak in 1914, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Tellie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1922.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tellie performed strongest in the 1900s, accumulating 16 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Tellie shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tellie 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 52 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.