Tesla
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #8,055 · Last seen for boys in 2020 at #9,554
Given to girls 96.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1992 · 145 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,589since 1985
Tesla over time
Rank among girls' names. Tesla has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | — | |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,607 | 29 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,141 | 50 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #2,400 | 74 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #1,915 | 104 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #1,614 | 134 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #1,425 | 162 | #5,124 | 18 |
| 2015 | #1,399 | 167 | #10,644 | 6 |
| 2014 | #1,804 | 113 | #8,130 | 9 |
| 2013 | #1,587 | 135 | #5,923 | 14 |
| 2012 | #1,955 | 100 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #2,555 | 70 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #2,906 | 59 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,852 | 61 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #4,006 | 39 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,475 | 33 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,463 | 32 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,704 | 28 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,093 | 34 | — | |
| 2003 | #5,235 | 23 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,730 | 35 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,631 | 36 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,591 | 36 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,567 | 55 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,570 | 53 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,864 | 79 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,780 | 83 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,588 | 95 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,583 | 96 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,471 | 108 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,202 | 145 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,343 | 122 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,456 | 107 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 | — | |
| 1988 | #4,496 | 19 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | — | |
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| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tesla! It came in at #10,677, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1986, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
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- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 1992 at #1,202 (145 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,689 girls born in 2015 were named Tesla (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,429 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,202 in 1992, was only 1 in 12,717 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 43.2% of all girls named Tesla (1,118) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 60 | #3,673 (1989) | #6,550 |
| 1990s | 943 | #1,202 (1992) | #1,742 |
| 2000s | 357 | #2,852 (2009) | #4,078 |
| 2010s | 1,118 | #1,399 (2015) | #1,956 |
| 2020s | 111 | #3,141 (2020) | #5,508 |
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.
Tesla in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 10,938 of them was named Tesla, which outranked 92.5% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,420Kayleen163
- #1,420Letty163
- #1,420Rachael163
- #1,425Tesla162
- #1,425Cheyanne162
- #1,425Eleni162
- #1,425Janet162
- #1,434Ashanti161
- #1,434Aubriana161
- #1,434Kourtney161
Tied with 8 names at #1,425; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 105,430 of them was named Tesla, which outranked 63.9% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,943Yoandry19
- #4,943Zadkiel19
- #4,943Zyire19
- #5,124Tesla18
- #5,124Aadam18
- #5,124Aarya18
- #5,124Aaryav18
- #5,318Aarian17
- #5,318Aasir17
- #5,318Abijah17
Tied with 193 names at #5,124; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.