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Teena

Girls' name

Christian (woman), through Tina

Teena has been given to 5,746 babies in the U.S. since 1928. 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 1956, with 322 recorded.

Babies named Teena, 2014

1 in 618,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Teena: meaning, origin, and history

Christian (woman), through Tina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Teena means

Teena belongs to the name family reached through Teena → Tina → Christina. Its meaning is “Christian (woman)”.

Origin, language, and formation

Teena is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tina and Christina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,746 girls were recorded with the name Teena between 1928 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 322 in 1956; its best national rank was #521 in 1956.

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 Teena?

Teena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 618,000
6 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 298,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
428,229 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Teena 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 2014 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 428,229 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Teena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Teenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Teena was born before 1963 — so the typical Teena is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
31.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,353
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 31.1% of all recorded uses (1,787).

Is Teena 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1956 (322)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#521
1956

Spellings of Teena

Teena is not the most common spelling — Teresa is, with 16.8% against Teena's 0.23%.

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 Teena is used

Across 1910–2025, Teena was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 42,072 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 20,000
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 20,000
  3. 3Oregon1 in 25,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 33,333
  5. 5Idaho1 in 33,333
  6. 6Illinois1 in 33,333
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 33,333
  8. 8Missouri1 in 33,333

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. Teena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Teena around the world

Where Teena 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.

  • Canada
    1991–1991
    #2,131
    in 1991
  • South Australia
    1946–2001
    #711
    in 2001

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Teena

People whose public names include Teena, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Teena in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Teena. Linked forms have their own page here.

TenaTinaTreena

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Teena 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
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Best rank ever
#521
1956
Peak year
1956
322 that year
First recorded
1928
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
5,746
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Teena

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

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Names with a curve like Teena

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Teena, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Teena

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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