Teya
Teya was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,700 among girls’ names; 1,312 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,290 Americans named Teya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Teya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Teya?
#5,700 among girls’ names, 2025
Teya rose from #6,217 in 2015 to #5,700 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.8 to 13.7 per million.
77 babies in 1998, the peak
Teya peaked in 1998, when 77 girls were given it, #1,973 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,700 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,763 | 17.9 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,649 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,572 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,383 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,918 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,682 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,132 | 15.3 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,509 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,966 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,217 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,188 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,233 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,767 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,528 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,296 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,097 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,263 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,779 | 22.4 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,363 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,999 | 29.2 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,322 | 25.1 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,919 | 29.0 |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,092 | 26.2 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,083 | 25.5 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,326 | 22.6 |
| 1999 | 52 | #2,695 | 29.3 |
| 1998 | 77 | #1,973 | 43.6 |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,586 | 28.7 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,566 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,422 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,059 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,588 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,284 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,639 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,528 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,407 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,728 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,706 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,059 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,753 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,796 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,331 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,772 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,715 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,614 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,644 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,306 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,075 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,434 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,831 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,036 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,507 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,246 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,527 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,321 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Teya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Teya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Teya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Teya, and how old are they?
1,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,312 Americans ever recorded as Teya. The median Teya alive today is 23 years old; half are between 16 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,173 people named Teya (1,162 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,161 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 202 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 701 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 281 |
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).
Where are babies named Teya born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,487 | 0.8× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Teya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Teya?
Teya is a less common spelling of Taya: SSA has recorded 1,312 Teya and 6,580 Taya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,334 babies since 1880, Teya is the fifth most given (8.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 132 babies (17%), the second 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 Teya
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 Teya and names like it
- Compare Teya and TayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTeya peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Teya since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Teya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Teya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.