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Teya vs Teyana

American parents have registered 1,312 Teyas since 1880, against 1,163 Teyanas. But in 2025 it was Teyana that was commoner, 31 babies to 22.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Teya against Teyana, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Teya Teyana

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 57 years in which either name was published, Teya for 34 years and Teyana for 23 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Teya Teyana
Total US births 1,3121,163
Most in one year 7766
Babies in 2025 2231
Estimated living today 1,3001,200
Median age today 2213
Peak year 19982017
Best rank 1,958th girls2,635th girls
Rank in 2025 5,554th4,460th
First recorded 19571982
Girls / boys 1,312 / 01,163 / 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 Teyas alive today are over 22; half the Teyanas are over 13. That is 9 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 Teya Teyana
England and Wales 29067
France 2575

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