Tekoa

#3,647 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Possibly stockade or horn, trumpet

Tekoa has been given to 342 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #3,647 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 31 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 56% boys, 44% girls all-time.

Babies named Tekoa, 2025

1 in 107,000

Tekoa over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Tekoa went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19722025

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.

Tekoa: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly stockade or horn, trumpet

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tekoa means

Tekoa may mean “stockade or horn, trumpet”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 192 boys were recorded with the name Tekoa between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,647 in 2025.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,499 in 2015 to #3,647 in 2025.

In the United States, 150 girls were recorded with the name Tekoa between 1972 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1978; its best national rank was #5,533 in 1978.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Tekoa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 107,000; 31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 55,100; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #3,647; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 74,127 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Tekoa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tekoa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tekoas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tekoa was born before 2021 — so the typical Tekoa is around 4 today.

Median birth year: 2021; About 4 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 50.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 192; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 50.5% of all recorded uses (97).

Is Tekoa 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: +1,767; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: +6,852; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 4.43×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (31)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,647; 2025

Spellings of Tekoa

Tekoa is not the most common spelling — Koa is, with 32.9% against Tekoa's 0.82%.

Koa32.9%7,702
Teo12.8%2,987
Kekoa8.8%2,053
Takoda7.6%1,790
Makoa6.3%1,480
Nakoa4.9%1,137
Sekou4.8%1,118
Tevon4.5%1,062

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 Tekoa is used

Across 1910–2025, Tekoa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Tekoa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tekoa by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #3,647
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #3,647; 2025
Peak year: 2025; 31 that year
First recorded: 2002
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 192
Count in 2025: 31

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,533; 1978
Peak year: 1978; 12 that year
First recorded: 1972
Last recorded: 2008
All-time count: 150
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Tekoa

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

Kaikoa Nikoa Akoa Takoa Nakoa Makoa Jakoa Kekoa Tekhi Teko Zakoa Tekulve Koa Kanekoa

Sibling names for Tekoa

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

For a sister

Leonor Karleigh Keren Eloisa Shoshana Nila Kendyl Kamilah

For a brother

Evans Hamilton Caesar Leander Henri Lucio Gray Jerimiah

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