Teejay
#13,674 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Teejay has been given to 151 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #13,674 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Teejay, 2025
1 in 663,000
Teejay over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Teejay?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #13,674
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Teejay sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Teejay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Teejays were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Teejay was born before 2004 — so the typical Teejay is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 24.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 57.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 151
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (37).
Is Teejay rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,811
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 50.0%
- Peak was 2000 (10)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.0% average annual change
Spellings of Teejay
Teejay is not the most common spelling — Teegan is, with 49.5% against Teejay's 4.7%.
Teejay around the world
Where Teejay ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2025#4,275in 2025
- Scotland2001–2014#533in 2014
- South Australia1991–2009#374in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Teejay by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Teejay
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Teejay
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.