Teyah
Teyah was given to 5 girls in 2025, #17,036 among girls’ names; 357 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Teyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Teyah?
#17,036 among girls’ names, 2025
Teyah fell from #10,090 in 2015 to #17,036 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 3.1 per million.
23 babies in 1999, the peak
Teyah peaked in 1999, when 23 girls were given it, #4,854 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,036 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,135 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,291 | 3.1 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,627 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,698 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,090 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,432 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 8 | #13,043 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,430 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,159 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 18 | #7,190 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,527 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 12 | #10,025 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,068 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,883 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,791 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,945 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,554 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 16 | #7,015 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,150 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,185 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,854 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,561 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,209 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,684 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Teyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Teyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Teyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Teyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 353 Americans named Teyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 354 people named Teyah (353 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 339 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above 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).
How common is the spelling Teyah?
Teyah is a less common spelling of Taya: SSA has recorded 357 Teyah and 6,580 Taya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,334 babies since 1880, Teyah is the seventh most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 132 babies (3.8%), the sixth 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 Teyah
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 Teyah and names like it
- Compare Teyah and TayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTeyah peaked in 1999.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Teyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Teyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.