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Teja

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Short form of Doroteja

Teja has been given to 644 babies in the U.S. since 1978. 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 75 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% girls, 11% boys all-time.

Babies named Teja, 2016

1 in 734,000

Teja over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Teja over time

In 2016, Teja went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19782016

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Teja: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Doroteja

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Teja means

Teja is a short form of Doroteja.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Teja is used in Slovene.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Teja → Doroteja. The family’s meaning is “gift + god”, recorded in Latvian with the source elements δῶρον and θεός.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Doroteja.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 571 girls were recorded with the name Teja between 1978 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 75 in 2002; its best national rank was #2,220 in 2002.

In the United States, 73 boys were recorded with the name Teja between 1998 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1999; its best national rank was #5,279 in 1999.

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 Teja?

Teja had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Teja 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Teja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tejas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Teja was born before 2001 — so the typical Teja is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
49.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
571
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 49.9% of all recorded uses (285).

Is Teja 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 (75)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,220
2002

Spellings of Teja

Teja is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 15.6% against Teja's 0.03%.

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 Teja is used

Across 1910–2025, Teja was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 1,065,121 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Louisiana1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Washington1 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. Teja has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Teja around the world

Where Teja 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
    1997–2024
    #4,193
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2011–2015
    #426
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    2010–2020
    #834
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2002–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2002–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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

Teja 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
#2,220
2002
Peak year
2002
75 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
571
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,279
1999
Peak year
1999
13 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
73
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Teja

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

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Sibling names for Teja

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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