Teuta

Girls' name

From Latin Teuta; literal meaning unconfirmed

Teuta has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1994, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Teuta, 2008

1 in 655,000

Teuta over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Teuta: meaning, origin, and history

From Latin Teuta; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Teuta means

Teuta is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Teuta is used in Albanian.

Teuta comes through Latin Teuta.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Albanian, Teuta is pronounced /te.uˈta/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 43 girls were recorded with the name Teuta between 1973 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1994; its best national rank was #9,676 in 1973.

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 Teuta?

Teuta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 655,000
6 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 315,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
454,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Teuta 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 2008 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 454,097 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Teuta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Teutas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Teuta was born before 1994 — so the typical Teuta is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
34.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
43
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 34.9% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Teuta 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (6)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,676
1973

Spellings of Teuta

Teuta is not the most common spelling — Tessa is, with 18.0% against Teuta's 0.01%.

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.

Teuta around the world

Where Teuta 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
    2016–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Teuta 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
#9,676
1973
Peak year
1994
6 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
43
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Teuta

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

Sibling names for Teuta

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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