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Teo

#794 in 2025Boys' name

Gift of god, through Theo

Teo has been given to 2,987 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #794 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 335 recorded.

Babies named Teo, 2025

1 in 10,400

Teo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Teo: meaning, origin, and history

Gift of god, through Theo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Teo means

Teo belongs to the name family reached through Teo → Theo → Theodor → Teodor. Its meaning is “gift of god”.

Origin, language, and formation

Teo is used in Finnish.

Teo comes through Swedish Theo.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Theo, Theodor and Teodor.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Teo is pronounced /ˈte(ː)o/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,987 boys were recorded with the name Teo between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 335 in 2024; its best national rank was #761 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,371 in 2020 to #794 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,752 in 2015 to #794 in 2025.

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 Teo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,400
318 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,370
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#794
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,227 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Teo 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,227 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Teo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Teos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Teo was born before 2019 — so the typical Teo is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
49.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,987
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 49.7% of all recorded uses (1,485).

Is Teo 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
−33
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+577
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+958
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.61×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
94.9%
Peak was 2024 (335)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#761
2024

Where Teo is used

Across 2016–2025, Teo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 4,167 boys, against 1 in 8,459 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

224 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 4,167
  2. 2New York1 in 4,762
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 5,556
  4. 4Washington1 in 5,882
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 7,143
  6. 6Florida1 in 7,692
  7. 7Illinois1 in 8,333
  8. 8Texas1 in 10,000

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.

Teo around the world

Where Teo 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
    1997–2025
    #549
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2018–2022
    #352
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #432
    in 2025
  • France
    1987–2025
    #648
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #164
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #396
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1990–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Teo

People whose public names include Teo, 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.

Teo in other languages

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

TheoTheobaldTeobald

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

Teo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#794
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 577
Best rank ever
#761
2024
Peak year
2024
335 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,987
Count in 2025
318

Names similar to Teo

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

TeonTeodoroTeodorTimoteoTeofiloTeomanAristeoMatteoMateoDoroteoTeofilArteoTeondreTeoduloTeonteNateoTeotlAlteoTeontaeAnteoTeodoreLiammateoJuanmateoLuismateo

Names with a curve like Teo

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

JasielColesonKhaiDamirAlessioSevenWestynEverestTrueAspenBeauxCalum

Sibling names for Teo

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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