Teniya
Teniya was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 231 Americans have been recorded with it between 1981 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Teniya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Teniya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,519, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 2001, the peak
Teniya peaked in 2001, when 19 girls were given it, #6,047 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #17,519 | 3.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,244 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,181 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,052 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,174 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,336 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,924 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,477 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,450 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,463 | 8.7 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 18 | #6,742 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,956 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 16 | #7,013 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,047 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,702 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,672 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,958 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,734 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,368 | 3.4 |
| 1981 | 7 | #9,012 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Teniya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Teniya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Teniya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Teniya, and how old are they?
An estimated 228 Americans named Teniya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 18 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 225 people named Teniya (222 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 224 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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).
How common is the spelling Teniya?
Teniya is a less common spelling of Tenia: SSA has recorded 231 Teniya and 981 Tenia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,421 babies since 1880, Teniya is the fifth most given (2.0% of them).
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 Teniya
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 Teniya and names like it
- Compare Teniya and TeniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTeniya peaked in 2001.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Teniya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Teniya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.