Tea

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Tea: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Tea: Recorded since 1976, it reached #199 in 2001, and it stood at #440 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
70times a registrar ranked it
49years from first to last
#199highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2021

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#3174
1998	#1480
1999	#1261
2000	#1831
2001	#779
2002	#1192
2003	#1176
2004	#1535
2005	#2247
2006	#2137
2007	#2627
2008	#2292
2009	#2148
2010	#2392
2013	#4739
2014	#4003
2015	#4736
2017	#4763
2018	#5666
2019	#4686
2021	#5581

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 45 of the 49 years from 1976 to 2024.

In 2021: #453 among girls in Norway, #5581 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1976–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1976
First recorded at #530 among girls in Norway in 1976 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1976–2024
Highest recorded position: #199 among girls in Norway, in 2001 (recorded 1976–2024).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #440 among girls in Norway, in 2024.
Norway · Girls

Tea appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 45 years beginning in 1976, and has registered 454 births with the name.

Tea across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Tea's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#530 (1976)	#199 (2001)	#440 (2024)	45 of 49	454 (1976–2024)	26 (2001)
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#779 (2001)	#5581 (2021)	22 of 26	210 (1996–2021)	31 (2001)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#689 (2005)	#689 (2005)	#868 (2016)	2 of 12	6 (2005–2016)	3 (2005)

Tea by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Tea in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	12	2 of 10	6
1980s	55	9 of 10	6
1990s	114	10 of 10	11
2000sbusiest	163	10 of 10	16
2010s	89	10 of 10	9
2020s	21	4 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 16 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Tea appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1976 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #199 in Norway in 2001.

Tea's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2148	11	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1535	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1176	19	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1192	17	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#779	31	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1261	15	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1480	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#348	3	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#440	6	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#534	4	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#433	6	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#453	5	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#458	6	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#501	5	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#438	8	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#540	5	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#361	12	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#403	10	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#340	14	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#505	6	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#407	10	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#357	13	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#344	14	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#301	17	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#334	14	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#251	20	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#274	18	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#438	8	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#300	14	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#252	18	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#199	26	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#304	14	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#230	21	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#283	15	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#315	13	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#302	14	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#468	8	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#421	9	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#406	10	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#527	7	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#371	12	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#629	5	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#409	11	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#468	9	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#583	6	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#675	4	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#543	7	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#673	4	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#671	4	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#607	5	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#599	5	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#535	6	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#530	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1976 and 2024, ranked in 45 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #199, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 31 births, registered in England and Wales in 2001.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 29 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Tayyibah · #781, 28y
Teagan · #143, 30y
Teaghan · #383, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Bilal · #197, 50y
Evelina · #194, 47y
Jennie · #192, 50y
Ieva · #190, 45y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Breandan · #199, 13y
Donatas · #199, 26y
Elton · #200, 31y
Maebh · #201, 46y

Tea was ranked #199 in Norway · Girls in 2001. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Tea and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Tea without appearing here.

Tea moved ahead of

Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1831 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #779 and #3998.
Gail Compare
In 1997 they stood at #3174 and #1958 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #1480 and #3142.
Fionn Compare
In 1997 they stood at #3174 and #2152 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #1480 and #2701.
Debra Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1480 and #1392 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1261 and #2189.

Moved ahead of Tea

Blake Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2148 and #3936 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #4739 and #1587.
Tove Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4763 and #5765 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #2674.
Eabha Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2392 and #3156 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #4739 and #2313.
Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4739 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4003 and #1628.

Moved the opposite way to Tea

Vibeke Compare
Between 1976 and 2008 in Norway · Girls, Tea went from #530 to #301 while Vibeke went from #29 to #458.
Wenche Compare
Between 1976 and 2008 in Norway · Girls, Tea went from #530 to #301 while Wenche went from #51 to #621.
Vigdis Compare
Between 1976 and 2006 in Norway · Girls, Tea went from #530 to #251 while Vigdis went from #170 to #583.
Gunn Compare
Between 1976 and 2005 in Norway · Girls, Tea went from #530 to #274 while Gunn went from #66 to #546.

Moved the same way as Tea

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Tea went from #3126 to #5581 and Abigail from #21 to #105.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Tea went from #3126 to #5581 and Aimee from #70 to #1195.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Tea went from #3126 to #5581 and Aisling from #440 to #1569.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Tea went from #3126 to #5581 and Alex from #161 to #1866.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1976 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #199 in Norway in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Tea

Tea at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Tea across 3 official records

Tea by decade in Norway · Girls

Tea appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Tea

Tea and the names beside it

Tea moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Tea

Moved the opposite way to Tea

Moved the same way as Tea

Tea at a glance

Tea across 3 official records

Tea by decade in Norway · Girls

Tea appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Tea

Tea and the names beside it

Tea moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Tea

Moved the opposite way to Tea

Moved the same way as Tea