Tesha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tesha has been given to 1,804 babies in the U.S. since 1963. 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 1978, with 95 recorded.
Babies named Tesha, 2007
1 in 800,000
Tesha over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Tesha?
Tesha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 800,000
- 5 of 3,997,748 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 384,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 554,207 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tesha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Teshas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tesha was born before 1980 — so the typical Tesha is around 45 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 42.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 37.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,804
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 42.6% of all recorded uses (768).
Is Tesha 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
- —
- 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 1978 (95)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.5% average annual change
Spellings of Tesha
Tesha is not the most common spelling — Tessa is, with 9.6% against Tesha's 0.31%.
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 Tesha is used
Across 1910–2025, Tesha was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 248,836 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 2North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 3New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 4New York1 in 100,000
- 5California1 in —
- 6Florida1 in —
- 7Georgia1 in —
- 8Illinois1 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. Tesha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Tesha around the world
Where Tesha 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 & Wales2003–2007#3,667in 2007
- Canada1991–1991#2,397in 1991
- South Australia2002–2009#818in 2009
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.
Tesha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tesha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tesha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.