Tesha
Tesha was last recorded in 2007, when 5 babies were given it; 1,804 Americans have been recorded with it between 1963 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,720 Americans named Tesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 39 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #20,307, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
95 babies in 1978, the peak
Tesha peaked in 1978, when 95 girls were given it, #1,287 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | #20,307 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,018 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,945 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,727 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,245 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,124 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,581 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,779 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,810 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,724 | 12.5 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 29 | #3,765 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,880 | 15.7 |
| 1993 | 55 | #2,345 | 30.4 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,914 | 22.2 |
| 1991 | 50 | #2,510 | 26.7 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,066 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,866 | 21.2 |
| 1988 | 47 | #2,362 | 26.4 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,650 | 21.9 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,841 | 19.8 |
| 1985 | 54 | #2,018 | 31.4 |
| 1984 | 48 | #2,109 | 28.5 |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,748 | 37.1 |
| 1982 | 83 | #1,460 | 49.0 |
| 1981 | 78 | #1,545 | 46.8 |
| 1980 | 83 | #1,471 | 50.0 |
| 1979 | 89 | #1,393 | 55.4 |
| 1978 | 95 | #1,287 | 62.0 |
| 1977 | 80 | #1,413 | 52.2 |
| 1976 | 69 | #1,513 | 47.1 |
| 1975 | 82 | #1,331 | 56.2 |
| 1974 | 79 | #1,343 | 53.8 |
| 1973 | 69 | #1,431 | 47.3 |
| 1972 | 66 | #1,468 | 43.4 |
| 1971 | 79 | #1,363 | 47.5 |
| 1970 | 60 | #1,597 | 34.3 |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,923 | 25.5 |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,241 | 18.3 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,826 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,936 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,931 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,975 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,556 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tesha, and how old are they?
1,720 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,804 Americans ever recorded as Tesha. The median Tesha alive today is 46 years old; half are between 39 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 1,633 people named Tesha (1,632 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,742 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 901 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 723 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 83 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,758 babies since 1880, Tesha is the most given (38% 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 Tesha
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 Tesha and names like it
- Compare Tesha and TeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTesha peaked in 1978.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Tesha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tesha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.