Given name & surname
Tea
“an aunt”·“daughter born to royalty”
Tea is a variant of Tia. Interpretations include “an aunt” and “daughter born to royalty”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tea is a variant of Tia. Interpretations include “an aunt” and “daughter born to royalty”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Tea is a variant of Tia. Tia has been associated with Spanish and Greek naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Tea is a diminutive of Dorotea. In Estonian usage, Tea is a short form of Dorotea.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tea through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,493
- 0 boys · 2,493 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 290 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #10,042 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −23%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,042 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 22.6% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 290 in 1998. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,922 as a first name in 2020; 1,335 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tea’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Tea is a diminutive of Dorotea. In Finnish usage, Tea has a conventional equivalent in the English form Dorothy. Tea has a related form in Tia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Tea has relatives in 6 languages.
5 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tea
- Tea DonguzashviliRussian judokaborn 1976
- Thea TsulukianiGeorgian politician (born 1975)
- Tea FalcoItalian actressborn 1986
- Tea TairovićSerbian singer-songwriter and dancerborn 1996
- Tea Lanchavachess playerborn 1974
- Tea BanhDeputy Prime Minister and Minister for National Defence for Cambodiaborn 1945
- Tea PijevićCroatian handball playerborn 1991
- Tea Vikstedt-NymanFinnish racing cyclistborn 1959
- Tea GueciItalian chess playerborn 1999
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.