Tesla — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tesla

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,588 babies named Tesla between 1985 and 2023, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tesla currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 167 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tesla performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,117 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tesla shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 201 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Tesla in 25 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tesla 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 2,588 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.