girls:
1.3k births since 1957
#4461 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1957
#6480 (16th percentile)
The name Teya is the #6,480 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,261 recorded births since 1957. This represents the 16.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,461 (21.9% percentile) for all time with 1,261 births since 1957.
Teya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1957 (first recorded for girls in 1957). Birth data for Teya is available in 54 out of the 67 years between 1957 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 girls, Teya reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 8.2% percentile (ranked #802) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 40 births per million (ranked 8.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Teya ranks #934 for girls (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 25.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Teya".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Teya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Teya is pronounced as TAY-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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