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#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201976peak #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
1980#10,3925
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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.

Where Tea is popular in 1976

No state had 5 or more girls named Tea in 1976, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

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 1976

girls
#8,156
6 births · 1 in 244,183 girls

Top girls' names in 1976

  1. #1Jennifer59,473
  2. #2Amy31,339
  3. #3Melissa25,094
  4. #4Heather24,192
  5. #5Angela22,038
  6. #6Michelle19,550
  7. #7Kimberly18,962
  8. #8Jessica18,368
  9. #9Lisa17,346
  10. #10Amanda15,588
  11. #8,156Tea6
More about 1976

girls

1,465,099 girls got a published name in 1976; 1 in 244,183 of them was named Tea, which outranked 25.3% of the 10,913 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Tea
  1. #7,296Zelia7
  2. #7,296Zora7
  3. #7,296Zuri7
  4. #8,156Tea6
  5. #8,156Abbi6
  6. #8,156Abigal6
  7. #8,156Abigale6
  8. #9,284Aaren5
  9. #9,284Abeer5
  10. #9,284Abi5

Tied with 1,127 names at #8,156; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1975
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,548Rhiannon#4,141 → #593
  2. ↑ 3,533Mackenzie#4,370 → #837
  3. ↑ 3,060Khalilah#3,774 → #714
  4. ↑ 1,663Kenisha#2,612 → #949
  5. ↑ 1,455Latoria#2,411 → #956
Fallers
  1. ↓ 821Nyree#926 → #1,747
  2. ↓ 668Syreeta#778 → #1,446
  3. ↓ 505Cher#994 → #1,499
  4. ↓ 398Kandice#957 → #1,355
  5. ↓ 370Racquel#973 → #1,343

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

See the top 100 for 1976 →