Given name
Teena
Teena is a variant of Tina. One English interpretation is “from the river; also shortened torm of names ending in -tina.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Teena is a variant of Tina. One English interpretation is “from the river; also shortened torm of names ending in -tina.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Teena is a form of Tina. Tina comes from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1928. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Teena through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5,746
- 0 boys · 5,746 girls
- Most popular year
- 1956
- 322 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 322 in 1956. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,268 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Teena
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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