Tea

#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births

Peak · girls
1998 · 290 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,493
since 1976

Tea over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Tea has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202008peak #747, 1998girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#9,45710
2024#7,25115
2023#6,40918
2022#5,02826
2021#5,95520
2020#6,32518
2019#5,98620
2018#5,61922
2017#5,04526
2016#4,73429
2015#3,91538
2014#4,54431
2013#3,46545
2012#3,13453
2011#2,48373
2010#2,69166
2009#2,46577
2008#2,13794
2007#2,31183
2006#1,771117
2005#1,731114
2004#1,98993
2003#1,416140
2002#1,068199
2001#1,378138
2000#1,674105
1999#1,164167
1998#747290
1997#795261
1996#3,42933
1995#8,07910
1994#8,12210
1993#4,99819
1992#9,4918
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1981#8,1287
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First appearance
1976

The first year at least five girls were named Tea! It came in at #8,156, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1977–1980, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Tea
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 2,206 spots since 2024 (#7,251#9,457)
  • 3,132 spots since 2020 (#6,325#9,457)
  • 5,542 spots since 2015 (#3,915#9,457)
  • Biggest jump: 2,634 spots in 1997 (#3,429#795)
  • Biggest drop: 417 spots in 1999 (#747#1,164)
Rise & fade · girls
22 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1976
  • Peaked 1998 at #747 (290 births)
  • Births halved by 2000, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1997–1998
Share of babies · girls
1 in 6,093
  • Highest: 1 in 6,093 girls born in 1998 were named Tea (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 46.5% of all girls named Tea (1,160) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s6#8,156 (1976)#8,156
1980s19#8,128 (1981)#8,915
1990s798#747 (1998)#4,603
2000s1,160#1,068 (2002)#1,794
2010s403#2,483 (2011)#4,162
2020s107#5,028 (2022)#6,738

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Tea in 2008

girls
#2,137
94 births · 1 in 20,116 girls

Top girls' names in 2008

  1. #1Emma18,830
  2. #2Isabella18,629
  3. #3Emily17,448
  4. #4Olivia17,088
  5. #5Ava17,051
  6. #6Madison17,047
  7. #7Sophia16,091
  8. #8Abigail15,088
  9. #9Elizabeth12,027
  10. #10Chloe11,836
  11. #2,137Tea94
More about 2008

girls

1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 20,116 of them was named Tea, which outranked 89.6% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Tea
  1. #2,122Samiah95
  2. #2,122Shana95
  3. #2,122Veronika95
  4. #2,137Tea94
  5. #2,137Cayleigh94
  6. #2,137Chloee94
  7. #2,137Connie94
  8. #2,157Anyla93
  9. #2,157Bentley93
  10. #2,157Chanelle93

Tied with 19 names at #2,137; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2007
Risers
  1. 9,375Dayami#10,129#754
  2. 4,524Allisson#4,944#420
  3. 1,019Alisson#1,804#785
  4. 851Milagros#1,579#728
  5. 807Mareli#1,530#723
Fallers
  1. 391Kelis#968#1,359
  2. 390Joselin#755#1,145
  3. 378Tyra#947#1,325
  4. 363Montana#932#1,295
  5. 337Allyssa#988#1,325

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2008