Meaning not yet researched.
Tea: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #749 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #749 in 1998; #10,042 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tea in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,042 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #749.
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Tea: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #749 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 290 (1998).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Tea, making it the 10,042nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,479 places from #7,563 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 15 girls named Tea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #749, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 290. For comparison, it was #3,982 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tea in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 6 babies. In all, 2,493 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,160 babies named Tea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 204 US girls were named Tea; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tia (33,896 babies since 1880), Thea (20,118 babies since 1880), Ty (48,344 babies since 1880) and Theo (39,333 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Teja, Teyah and Teaya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Georgian, Italian and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Teja (644), Teyah (357), Teaya (47), Teyha (20).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Tea in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,042 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,563 | — | — |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,652 | — | — |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,160 | — | — |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,152 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,610 | — | — |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,159 | — | — |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,771 | — | — |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,175 | — | — |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,834 | — | — |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,982 | — | — |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,648 | — | — |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,512 | — | — |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,165 | — | — |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,510 | — | — |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,725 | — | — |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,484 | — | — |
| 2008 | 94 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 2007 | 83 | #2,327 | — | — |
| 2006 | 117 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 2005 | 114 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 2004 | 93 | #1,997 | — | — |
| 2003 | 140 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 2002 | 199 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 2001 | 138 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 2000 | 105 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 1999 | 167 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1998 | 290 | #749 | — | — |
| 1997 | 261 | #796 | — | — |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,499 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,697 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,739 | — | — |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,188 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,395 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,144 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #9,000 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,994 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,157 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).