Tehilla
Feminine · “praise”
Tehilla is praise, and specifically the praise that is sung: the Hebrew book we call Psalms is called Tehillim, praises, and this is the singular of it. Giving a child the name is giving her the title of a book that has been sung continuously for two and a half thousand years.
How old is the name Tehilla?
Tehilla first appears in US birth records in 1992 — 33 years ago. The typical Tehilla is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Tehilla are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tehilla most popular?
Tehilla peaked in 2021, reaching #3735 nationally. Today it ranks #5099, 1,364 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
Where it comes from
From tehillah to Tehilla
The story of Tehilla
The psalms were sung in the temple and have been sung in synagogues and churches ever since, which makes them among the most continuously performed texts in the world. The word tehillah appears inside them repeatedly. As a given name it belongs to modern Hebrew, part of the twentieth-century revival that took names directly from the vocabulary of the text, and it is given in Israel and among observant Jewish families elsewhere.
Meaning
praise; a song of praise
Hebrew tehillah, from hallel, to praise, the same root behind hallelujah, praise Yah. The plural Tehillim is the Hebrew name of the book of Psalms.
How the name formed
- tehillah
- Tehilla
Related forms: תהילה · Tehillah
Pronouncing Tehilla
teh-hee-LAH
Three syllables with the stress at the end, as Hebrew puts it. American English often says teh-HILL-uh with the weight in the middle, and both are heard.
Nicknames for Tehilla
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
- 1992
- Most girls named
- 202140 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3735reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- −10.7%25 in 2025, from 28
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.
Tehilla in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- תהילה in Hebrew — transliteration
- Tehillah in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, New Jersey, Maryland.
Tehillas among us
people named Tehilla are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 64,291 born in 2025 was named Tehilla
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Tehilla
- #5099
- Tehilla on the 2025 chart
- #866
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Tehilla went to 25 girls in 2025, but Tehila 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 — 4,233 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 64,291 for Tehilla 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 Kaylana test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tehilla's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kaylana climbed just as high around 2006, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kaylana's path sketches the road Tehilla is walking now.
Tehilla 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 Tehilla is headed
Tehilla 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.
Tehilla beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tehilla in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is one word and it names a book that everybody has heard of.
- Hila works as a short form and is a complete Hebrew name.
- Three open syllables make it easy for English speakers to say.
- Tehilla and Tehillah are both used, so records within a family may differ.
- The stress moves between Hebrew and English use.
- It reads as specifically religious, which is the point in some families and a consideration in others.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tehillas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Tehilla are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Tehilla?
- Tehilla is one of 3 recorded spellings. Tehila is the more common one — 45 births in 2025 against 25 for Tehilla.
- How popular is the name Tehilla in 2025?
- Tehilla ranks #5099 among US girl names in 2025, with 25 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tehilla?
- About 1 in every 64,291 US girls born in 2025 was named Tehilla — 25 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tehilla with classmates?
- Tehilla will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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