Teo

Where Teo comes from

Teo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1925
    Teo Macero born
    American jazz saxophonist, composer, and record producer
  2. 1955
    Teo Fabi born
    Italian racecar driver
  3. 1968
    First appearance
    #4,136 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2024
    Peak, #759
    335 babies named Teo — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Teo Fabi · Italian racecar driver, born 1955
  • Teo Macero · American jazz saxophonist, composer, and record producer, 1925–2008
  • Teo Chee Hean · Singaporean politician, born 1954
  • Teo Gheorghiu · Swiss actor and musician, born 1992
  • Teo Đogaš · Croatian water polo player, born 1977

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.