Meaning not yet researched.
Teo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 318 in 2025. Its best rank was #761 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #761 in 2024; #794 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Teo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#794 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #761.
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Teo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 318 boys in 2025. Peak: #761 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 335 (2024).
In 2025, 318 US boys were named Teo, making it the 794th most common boys’ name of the year, down 33 places from #761 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 335 boys named Teo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #761, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 335. For comparison, it was #1,752 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Teo in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 2,987 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,485 babies named Teo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,957 US boys were named Teo; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 335. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,371 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Teo ranked highest in California in 2025, at #396 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Theo (39,333 babies since 1880), Ty (48,344 babies since 1880), Tia (33,896 babies since 1880) and Thea (20,118 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tegh 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tegh (168).
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 Teo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 84 | #396 | #859 |
| New York | 31 | #524 | #940 |
| Utah | 8 | #555 | — |
| New Jersey | 12 | #600 | — |
| Washington | 12 | #601 | — |
| Colorado | 9 | #617 | — |
| Arizona | 10 | #668 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #777 | — |
| Illinois | 11 | #796 | #1,514 |
| Florida | 18 | #844 | — |
| Texas | 28 | #913 | #2,362 |
| Georgia | 9 | #981 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,060 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,130 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,233 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 318 | #794 |
| 2024 | — | — | 335 | #761 |
| 2023 | — | — | 282 | #857 |
| 2022 | — | — | 245 | #937 |
| 2021 | — | — | 176 | #1,147 |
| 2020 | — | — | 129 | #1,371 |
| 2019 | — | — | 137 | #1,335 |
| 2018 | — | — | 131 | #1,359 |
| 2017 | — | — | 101 | #1,603 |
| 2016 | — | — | 103 | #1,598 |
| 2015 | — | — | 88 | #1,752 |
| 2014 | — | — | 85 | #1,779 |
| 2013 | — | — | 65 | #2,089 |
| 2012 | — | — | 66 | #2,090 |
| 2011 | — | — | 66 | #2,053 |
| 2010 | — | — | 63 | #2,141 |
| 2009 | — | — | 69 | #2,031 |
| 2008 | — | — | 65 | #2,122 |
| 2007 | — | — | 61 | #2,209 |
| 2006 | — | — | 49 | #2,509 |
| 2005 | — | — | 41 | #2,696 |
| 2004 | — | — | 30 | #3,280 |
| 2003 | — | — | 33 | #2,987 |
| 2002 | — | — | 21 | #4,027 |
| 2001 | — | — | 22 | #3,829 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #5,015 |
| 1999 | — | — | 14 | #5,006 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #8,368 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,609 |
| 1996 | — | — | 14 | #4,587 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,875 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,911 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,728 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,632 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #9,482 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #8,027 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,812 |
| 1988 | — | — | 9 | #5,168 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,875 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,515 |
| 1983 | — | — | 12 | #3,605 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,314 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #4,121 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #7,201 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,972 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #5,070 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,982 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,748 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,680 |
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).