Teona
Teona was given to 7 girls in 2025, #13,066 among girls’ names; 974 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Teona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Teona?
#13,066 among girls’ names, 2025
Teona fell from #8,396 in 2015 to #13,066 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 4.4 per million.
39 babies in 1999, the peak
Teona peaked in 1999, when 39 girls were given it, #3,306 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #13,066 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,384 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,244 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 12 | #9,003 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,487 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,182 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,098 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,726 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,293 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,786 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,396 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,963 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,876 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,119 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,671 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,881 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,616 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,485 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,969 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,203 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,362 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,533 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,654 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,604 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,670 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,770 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,306 | 22.0 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,564 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,153 | 21.8 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,137 | 21.7 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,575 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,159 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,670 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,403 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,197 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,850 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,813 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,477 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,850 | 13.2 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,546 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,505 | 14.5 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,513 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,464 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,839 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,358 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,306 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,394 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,192 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,164 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,558 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,430 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,699 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,332 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,503 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Teona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Teona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Teona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Teona, and how old are they?
An estimated 955 Americans named Teona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 21 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 867 people named Teona (863 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 899 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% 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 21,564 babies since 1880, Teona is the eighth most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 55 babies (13%), the third 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 Teona
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 Teona and names like it
- Compare Teona and TenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTeona peaked in 1999.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Teona since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Teona.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Teona alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.