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Tehron vs Tehya

American parents have registered 2,061 Tehyas since 1880, against 33 Tehrons. Tehya is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tehron against Tehya, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tehron Tehya

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 39 years in which either name was published, Tehya for 36 years and Tehron for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tehron Tehya
Total US births 332,061
Most in one year 17164
Babies in 2025 under 510
Estimated living today 302,000
Median age today 4621
Peak year 19791998
Best rank 2,669th boys1,150th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked9,457th
First recorded 19791989
Girls / boys 0 / 332,061 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tehrons alive today are over 46; half the Tehyas are over 21. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tehron and Tehya.