Teshia — girls' name

What the Data Says About Teshia

The Social Security Administration has registered 452 babies named Teshia between 1964 and 1999, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Teshia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 25 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Teshia performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 171 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Teshia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Teshia in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Teshia 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 452 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.