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Teya vs Teyon

American parents have registered 1,312 Teyas since 1880, against 190 Teyons. Teya is still ahead, with 22 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Teya against Teyon, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Teya Teyon

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 57 years in which either name was published, Teya for 54 years and Teyon for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Teya Teyon
Total US births 1,312190
Most in one year 7725
Babies in 2025 22under 5
Estimated living today 1,300190
Median age today 2224
Peak year 19981987
Best rank 1,958th girls2,272nd boys
Rank in 2025 5,554thunranked
First recorded 19571987
Girls / boys 1,312 / 00 / 190

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 Teyons alive today are over 24; half the Teyas are over 22. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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