Tehya
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 21 babies a year in the US.
Tehya by the numbers
Tehya was given to 21 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 164 babies in 1998, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Tehya
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Tehya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Teya8 in England and Wales (2025)
- Tessaharvester; a form of Theresa1,283 in the US (2017)
- Tanyaworthy of praise; diminutive form of tatiana91 in the US (2017)
- Terraearth, land86 in the US (2017)
- Talyadew of god; variant of talia or natalia80 in the US (2017)
- Tehilapraise or praises7 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Tehya
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