Tea
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 290 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,493since 1976
Tea over time
Rank among girls' names. Tea has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 |
| 2022 | #5,028 | 26 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 |
| 2018 | #5,619 | 22 |
| 2017 | #5,045 | 26 |
| 2016 | #4,734 | 29 |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 |
| 2014 | #4,544 | 31 |
| 2013 | #3,465 | 45 |
| 2012 | #3,134 | 53 |
| 2011 | #2,483 | 73 |
| 2010 | #2,691 | 66 |
| 2009 | #2,465 | 77 |
| 2008 | #2,137 | 94 |
| 2007 | #2,311 | 83 |
| 2006 | #1,771 | 117 |
| 2005 | #1,731 | 114 |
| 2004 | #1,989 | 93 |
| 2003 | #1,416 | 140 |
| 2002 | #1,068 | 199 |
| 2001 | #1,378 | 138 |
| 2000 | #1,674 | 105 |
| 1999 | #1,164 | 167 |
| 1998 | #747 | 290 |
| 1997 | #795 | 261 |
| 1996 | #3,429 | 33 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 |
| 1993 | #4,998 | 19 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
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| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
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| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 |
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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 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#1,094 · 1 in 6,272
- Illinois#1,483 · 1 in 10,540
- California#1,651 · 1 in 13,643
- New York#2,264 · 1 in 18,955
Best ever in a state: #141 in South Dakota, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #1,094 | 5 | 1 in 6,272 |
| Illinois | #1,483 | 6 | 1 in 10,540 |
| California | #1,651 | 16 | 1 in 13,643 |
| New York | #2,264 | 5 | 1 in 18,955 |
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See more about Tea
- 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)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 1998 at #747 (290 births)
- Births halved by 2000, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1997–1998
- 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%)
- 46.5% of all girls named Tea (1,160) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 6 | #8,156 (1976) | #8,156 |
| 1980s | 19 | #8,128 (1981) | #8,915 |
| 1990s | 798 | #747 (1998) | #4,603 |
| 2000s | 1,160 | #1,068 (2002) | #1,794 |
| 2010s | 403 | #2,483 (2011) | #4,162 |
| 2020s | 107 | #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 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 23,859 of them was named Tea, which outranked 87.8% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,446Kimberlee78
- #2,446Liz78
- #2,446Milly78
- #2,465Tea77
- #2,465Aneesa77
- #2,465Becca77
- #2,465Bernadette77
- #2,485Adalee76
- #2,485Alecia76
- #2,485Alexsandra76
Tied with 19 names at #2,465; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.