Teona
Feminine · “godly”
Georgia has its own alphabet, invented for the language and used for nothing else. There are only a handful of scripts in the world in that position, and the Georgian one has three historical forms, all still legible, all recognized by UNESCO. Teona is an ordinary Georgian name written in it.
How old is the name Teona?
Teona first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Teona alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 1,000 people named Teona are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Teona most popular?
Teona peaked in 1996, reaching #3093 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 8,839 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
From theos to Teona
The story of Teona
The Georgian alphabet was created in the fifth century, apparently on purpose and by someone who thought carefully about the sounds of the language, and it fits Georgian so well that no other language uses it. Three forms developed and all three are still read: the rounded original, a medieval ecclesiastical script, and the modern one. Georgian is also not related to anything much — it belongs to a small family of its own in the Caucasus, with no established connection to Indo-European or Turkic or anything else. Names in it come from several directions, and a great many of the women's names, Teona among them, arrived from Greek with the church and have been Georgian for fifteen hundred years.
Meaningscholars disagree
godly, belonging to God
Usually taken from Greek Theone, built on theos, god, and used as a name in the Greek-speaking east from late antiquity. It reached Georgia with Orthodox Christianity. A modern coinage or a shortened Teodora is also possible for the American entries.
How the name formed
- theos
- Theone
- Teona
Related forms: Teona · Theone
Pronouncing Teona
teh-OH-nah
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Georgian says every vowel fully and gives the name a flatter shape than English does. tee-OH-nuh is the common American reading.
Nicknames for Teona
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
- 1971
- Most girls named
- 199939 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3093reached in 1996
- Change vs 2024
- −46.2%7 in 2025, from 13
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.
Teona in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Teona in Georgian — same name
- Theone in Greek — related form
Teonas among us
people named Teona are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Teona
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Teona
- #11932
- Teona on the 2025 chart
- #948
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Teona went to 7 girls in 2025, but Teonna is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 12, which makes it the 948th most-given girls’ name of the year — 10,984 places above the chart.
- Teona7
- Teonna5
About 1 girl in 133,939 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Teona 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 Adamae test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Teona's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Adamae climbed just as high around 1917, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Adamae's path sketches the road Teona is walking now.
Teona 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
Teona beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Teona in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is a completely current Georgian name rather than a revival or a coinage.
- Three short forms, two of which are full names elsewhere.
- Three open syllables with nothing hard to say in them.
- Teona, Tiona and Theona are all in use in American records.
- Outside Georgian and Greek families it will need repeating more often than most.
- The meaning is plausible rather than demonstrated for this particular form.
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Frequently asked
- How many Teonas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Teona are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Teona?
- Teona is the most-used spelling in US records — 7 of the 12 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Teonna.
- How popular is the name Teona in 2025?
- Teona ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Teona?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Teona — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Teona with classmates?
- Teona will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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