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Tea vs Teairra

American parents have registered 2,493 Teas since 1880, against 745 Teairras. Tea is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tea against Teairra, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tea Teairra

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 47 years in which either name was published, Tea for 32 years and Teairra for 15 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Tea Teairra
Total US births 2,493745
Most in one year 29099
Babies in 2025 10under 5
Estimated living today 2,500730
Median age today 2326
Peak year 19982005
Best rank 747th girls1,933rd girls
Rank in 2025 9,457thunranked
First recorded 19761981
Girls / boys 2,493 / 0745 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Teairras alive today are over 26; half the Teas are over 23. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tea and Teairra.