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Teela

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Teela has been given to 841 babies in the U.S. since 1948. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1984, with 175 recorded.

Babies named Teela, 2022

1 in 423,000

Teela over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Teela: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Teela means

Teela is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Teela is used in English and Cebuano.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Teela is pronounced /ˈti.lə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 841 girls were recorded with the name Teela between 1948 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 175 in 1984; its best national rank was #873 in 1984.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Teela?

Teela had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 423,000
8 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 205,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
293,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Teela sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 293,354 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Teela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Teelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Teela was born before 1985 — so the typical Teela is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
60.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
834
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 60.5% of all recorded uses (509).

Is Teela 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1984 (175)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#873
1984

Spellings of Teela

Teela is not the most common spelling — Teresa is, with 21.2% against Teela's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Teela is used

Across 1910–2025, Teela was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 488,689 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Indiana1 in —
  7. 7Kentucky1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Teela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Teela around the world

Where Teela 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 & Wales
    1998–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1991–1991
    #2,131
    in 1991
  • South Australia
    1986–1989
    #692
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Teela by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#873
1984
Peak year
1984
175 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
841
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Teela

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Teela

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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