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.
Show data table
| 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.
Where Tesla is popular in 1985
No state had 5 or more girls named Tesla in 1985, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Tesla
- 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 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 344,166 of them was named Tesla, which outranked 14.6% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,828 names at #10,677; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.