girls:
139 births since 1971
#5577 (2nd percentile)
boys:
16 births since 1996
#4570 (0th percentile)
overall:
155 births since 1971
#7584 (2nd percentile)
The name Teva is the #7,584 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 155 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 2.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,577 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 139 births since 1971. For boys, it ranks #4,570 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1996.
Teva first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 1996 for boys). Birth data for Teva is available in 22 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023 (20 years for girls and 3 years for boys). 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.
The name Teva has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Teva were girls.
For girls, Teva reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #755) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Teva ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 71.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Teva reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #846) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Teva".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Teva. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.1% confident that Teva is pronounced as TEH-vuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAY-vuh, at 27.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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