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Teo vs Teon

American parents have registered 2,987 Teos since 1880, against 1,045 Teons. Teo is still ahead, with 318 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Teo against Teon, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Teo Teon

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 56 years in which either name was published, Teon for 33 years and Teo for 23 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Teo Teon
Total US births 2,9871,045
Most in one year 33538
Babies in 2025 318under 5
Estimated living today 3,0001,000
Median age today 626
Peak year 20242000
Best rank 759th boys2,476th boys
Rank in 2025 793rdunranked
First recorded 19681969
Girls / boys 0 / 2,98715 / 1,030

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 Teons alive today are over 26; half the Teos are over 6. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Teo Teon
England and Wales 987150
Poland 6477

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

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