Meaning not yet researched.
Tesla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,205 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #1,205 in 1992. No US babies were recorded with the name Tesla in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #1,205 in 1992.
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Tesla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,205 in 1992 · most girls in one year: 167 (2015).
Fewer than five US girls were named Tesla in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,205, reached in 1992. The most girls given the name in a single year was 167, in 2015. For comparison, it was #1,403 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tesla in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 5 babies. In all, 2,687 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 3.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,204 babies named Tesla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 585 US girls were named Tesla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 162.
Rarer spellings such as Tessla 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tessla (216).
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 Tesla 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 13 | #8,451 | — | — |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,446 | — | — |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,711 | — | — |
| 2020 | 50 | #3,177 | 7 | #10,487 |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,426 | 6 | #11,988 |
| 2018 | 104 | #1,924 | 7 | #10,627 |
| 2017 | 134 | #1,624 | 11 | #7,494 |
| 2016 | 162 | #1,433 | 18 | #5,292 |
| 2015 | 167 | #1,403 | 6 | #11,940 |
| 2014 | 113 | #1,817 | 9 | #8,720 |
| 2013 | 135 | #1,596 | 14 | #6,205 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,971 | 5 | #14,004 |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,587 | 10 | #8,002 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,936 | — | — |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,888 | 5 | #14,291 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,080 | — | — |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,559 | — | — |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,563 | — | — |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,818 | — | — |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,163 | — | — |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,405 | — | — |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,802 | — | — |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,701 | — | — |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,655 | — | — |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,604 | — | — |
| 1998 | 53 | #2,613 | — | — |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 1996 | 83 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 1995 | 95 | #1,596 | — | — |
| 1994 | 96 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1993 | 108 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 1992 | 145 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 1991 | 122 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1990 | 107 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,779 | — | — |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,645 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,945 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,348 | — | — |
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).