Tehila
Feminine · “praise”
Tehila is the Hebrew word for praise, and it is the word that titles the book of Psalms — tehillim, the praises. It is a name about a whole genre of song.
How old is the name Tehila?
Tehila first appears in US birth records in 1985 — 40 years ago. The typical Tehila alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 900 people named Tehila are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tehila most popular?
Tehila peaked in 2023, reaching #3225 nationally. Today it ranks #3389, 164 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From tehillah to Tehila
The story of Tehila
The root behind tehillah runs through Hebrew in words for shining and for celebrating, and it gives the name of the psalter as well as the exclamation hallelujah, praise the Lord. Tehila as a personal name is modern and belongs to the twentieth-century Israeli practice of taking plain Hebrew vocabulary as names. It is widely used in Israel and in observant communities abroad.
Meaning
praise, song of praise
From Hebrew tehillah, praise, built on a root meaning to shine and then to boast or celebrate; the plural tehillim is the Hebrew title of the book English calls Psalms.
How the name formed
- tehillah
- Tehila
Related forms: Tehillah · Tehila
Pronouncing Tehila
teh-hee-LAH
Three syllables with the stress at the end in Hebrew. English speakers usually say teh-HEE-lah.
Nicknames for Tehila
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1985
- Most girls named
- 202350 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3225reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- +9.8%45 in 2025, from 41
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tehila in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tehillah in Hebrew — spelling variant
- Tehila in Yiddish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, New Jersey, Florida.
Tehilas among us
people named Tehila are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 35,717 born in 2025 was named Tehila
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Tehila
- #3389
- Tehila on the 2025 chart
- #866
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Tehila went to 45 girls in 2025, but Tehilla and Tehillah are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 94, which makes it the 866th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,523 places above the chart.
- Tehila45
- Tehilla25
- Tehillah24
About 1 girl in 17,099 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 35,717 for Tehila itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Janira test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tehila's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Janira climbed just as high around 1988, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Janira's path sketches the road Tehila is walking now.
Tehila sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Tehila is headed
Tehila should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Tehila beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tehila in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning tied directly to one of the most-read books in the world.
- Hila sits inside it as a complete Hebrew name.
- Six letters and three open syllables, easy enough to say.
- The stress differs between the Hebrew and American readings.
- Tehila and Tehilla are both used and relatives may prefer the doubled form.
- Outside Hebrew-speaking and observant communities it needs explaining every time.
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Tehila
Feminine · #3389 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Tehilas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Tehila are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Tehila?
- Tehila is the most-used spelling in US records — 45 of the 94 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Tehilla and Tehillah.
- How popular is the name Tehila in 2025?
- Tehila ranks #3389 among US girl names in 2025, with 45 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tehila?
- About 1 in every 35,717 US girls born in 2025 was named Tehila — 45 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tehila with classmates?
- Tehila will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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