How Many People Are Named Tea?

2,465

people named Tea are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 138,655 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,493 babies named Tea in Social Security records from 1976 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#5,883

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#3,303

See the top 100

Peak Year

1998

290 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Croatian, Slovene, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish
Pronunciation: TE-ah (Finnish)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Short form of DOROTHEA or THEODORA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Tea in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Tea alive today is about 21 years old, and 97% are under 30. Half of them were between 17 and 27 in 2025.

Under 30 2,395
97.2%
30 to 59 70
2.8%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Tea first appears in the records in 1976 and was given most often in 1998, to 290 babies. In 2025, 10 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1976 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Tea has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #749, in 1998. In 2025 it ranked #10,039.

Girls
Rank in 2025#10,039
Best rank#749 (1998)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,729 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Tea alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Tea were born in California than in any other state: about 321 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Tea was given 2 times as often in New York, 1.7 times in California and 1.6 times in Illinois.

California 321
New York 164
Texas 130
Illinois 93
Pennsylvania 59
Florida 54
Michigan 48
Massachusetts 47
Ohio 44
Colorado 34
Washington 27
Virginia 27
New Jersey 25
Arizona 21
Georgia 20
North Carolina 19
New Mexico 15
Utah 15
Wisconsin 12
Minnesota 12
Missouri 10
Tennessee 10
Oklahoma 10
Alabama 7
Iowa 6
South Dakota 6
Kansas 6
Idaho 5
Maryland 5
Hawaii 5
Connecticut 5
Arkansas 5
Mississippi 5

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