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Teija

Girls' name

Variant of Tea

Teija has been given to 19 babies in the U.S. since 2002. 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 2002, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Teija, 2004

1 in 764,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Teija: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Tea

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Teija means

Teija is a variant of Tea.

Origin, language, and formation

Teija is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tea and Dorothy.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Teija is pronounced /ˈtei̯jɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 19 girls were recorded with the name Teija between 2002 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2002; its best national rank was #13,479 in 2002.

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 Teija?

Teija had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2004
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2004
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,591 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Teija 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 2004 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 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Teija. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Teijas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Teija was born before 2003 — so the typical Teija is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
19
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Teija 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 2002 (7)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#13,479
2002

Spellings of Teija

Teija is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 42.0% against Teija's <0.01%.

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.

Teija around the world

Where Teija 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
    2006–2012
    #5,876
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1992–2015
    #3,185
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #782
    in 2006

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.

Teija 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
#13,479
2002
Peak year
2002
7 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
19
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Teija

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

TeisaTeikaTeiyaDwijaTeinaTeiahTeilorTeilaniShrijaRaijaTeionaEnijaAmijaLucijaAsijaTeijahBeijaTeiannaTeianaSanijaTeidraSrijaSaijaLamija

Sibling names for Teija

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

Explore around Teija

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