Tesha

Last seen for girls in 2007 at #17,636

Peak · girls
1978 · 95 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,804
since 1963

Tesha over time

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Rank among girls' names. Tesha has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201971peak #1,281, 1978girls
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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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2007#17,6365
2006#13,6067
2005#16,4625
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2003#12,4087
2002#13,5956
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2000#6,80815
1999#11,3857
1998#5,58318
1997#6,48314
1996#4,58322
1995#3,67029
1994#3,79028
1993#2,32255
1992#2,86941
1991#2,48450
1990#3,02237
1989#2,81039
1988#2,33047
1987#2,61238
1986#2,77934
1985#1,99754
1984#2,08148
1983#1,73362
1982#1,44583
1981#1,52878
1980#1,46083
1979#1,37789
1978#1,28195
1977#1,40480
1976#1,49969
1975#1,32682
1974#1,33479
1973#1,41869
1972#1,45666
1971#1,35079
1970#1,58460
1969#1,89743
1968#2,20530
1967#3,65613
1966#3,74012
1965#3,73312
1964#4,6369
1963#6,5925
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First appearance
1963

The first year at least five girls were named Tesha! It came in at #6,592, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2001, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Tesha
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2007
Rise & fade · girls
15 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1963
  • Peaked 1978 at #1,281 (95 births)
  • Births halved by 1986, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 16,125
  • Highest: 1 in 16,125 girls born in 1978 were named Tesha (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 384,523 girls born in 2007 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 42.6% of all girls named Tesha (768) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s124#1,897 (1969)#3,780
1970s768#1,281 (1978)#1,403
1980s566#1,445 (1982)#2,078
1990s301#2,322 (1993)#4,619
2000s45#6,808 (2000)#13,419

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.

Tesha in 1971

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#1,350
79 births · 1 in 21,061 girls

Top girls' names in 1971

  1. #1Jennifer56,771
  2. #2Michelle33,160
  3. #3Lisa32,907
  4. #4Kimberly30,708
  5. #5Amy26,237
  6. #6Angela25,901
  7. #7Melissa23,875
  8. #8Tammy17,656
  9. #9Mary16,703
  10. #10Julie15,322
  11. #1,350Tesha79
More about 1971

girls

1,663,823 girls got a published name in 1971; 1 in 21,061 of them was named Tesha, which outranked 86.0% of the 9,645 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Tesha
  1. #1,336Sanjuanita80
  2. #1,336Tess80
  3. #1,336Tonda80
  4. #1,350Tesha79
  5. #1,350Buffie79
  6. #1,350Catharine79
  7. #1,350Cyndi79
  8. #1,364Becki78
  9. #1,364Denita78
  10. #1,364Elyse78

Tied with 13 names at #1,350; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1970
Risers
  1. 2,115Yesenia#2,522#407
  2. 1,431Shayla#2,267#836
  3. 853Ebony#1,681#828
  4. 749Consuela#1,706#957
  5. 510Candida#1,196#686
Fallers
  1. 572Sebrina#916#1,488
  2. 382Janene#684#1,066
  3. 375Treena#989#1,364
  4. 356Tisa#910#1,266
  5. 351Shaun#929#1,280

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

See the top 100 for 1971