boys:
675 births since 1983
#3912 (15th percentile)
overall:
675 births since 1983
#7064 (9th percentile)
The name Tej is the #7,064 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 675 recorded births since 1983. This represents the 8.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,912 (14.6% percentile) for all time with 675 births since 1983.
Tej first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1983 (first recorded for boys in 1983). Birth data for Tej is available in 38 out of the 41 years between 1983 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Tej reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #853) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Tej ranks #899 for boys (1.3% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 57.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tej".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tej. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.2% confident that Tej is pronounced as tehj, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tayj, at 36.8% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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