Tesla
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tesla has been given to 2,687 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 2015, with 167 recorded.
Babies named Tesla, 2023
1 in 255,000
Tesla 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Tesla?
Tesla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 123,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,742 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tesla sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 176,742 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tesla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Teslas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tesla was born before 2008 — so the typical Tesla is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 43.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 63.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,589
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 43.2% of all recorded uses (1,118).
Is Tesla 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2015 (167)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.7% average annual change
Spellings of Tesla
Tesla is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 25.2% against Tesla's 0.19%.
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 Tesla is used
Across 2016–2025, Tesla was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 37,922 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
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.
Tesla around the world
Where Tesla 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.
- Canada1991–2018#2,373in 2018
- South Australia2008–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Tesla by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Tesla
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Tesla
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tesla, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Tesla
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.