Teyla
Teyla was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 319 Americans have been recorded with it between 2004 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Teyla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Teyla?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,456, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 2008, the peak
Teyla peaked in 2008, when 31 girls were given it, #4,865 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #17,456 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,935 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,158 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 8 | #12,098 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,362 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,406 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,103 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,628 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,787 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,969 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #10,881 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,439 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,873 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,542 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,723 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,526 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,865 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,481 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,205 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,792 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,933 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Teyla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Teyla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Teyla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Teyla, and how old are they?
An estimated 317 Americans named Teyla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 307 people named Teyla (304 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 273 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Teyla?
Teyla is a less common spelling of Tayla: SSA has recorded 319 Teyla and 5,467 Tayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,806 babies since 1880, Teyla is the seventh most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 87 babies recorded by SSA was a Teyla (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Teyla
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 Teyla and names like it
- Compare Teyla and TaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTeyla peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Teyla since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Teyla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Teyla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.