Teyanna
Feminine · “of the Tatius family”
In Russia, the twenty-fifth of January is Students' Day, and it is Students' Day because Moscow University was founded on Saint Tatiana's feast in 1755. So an obscure third-century Roman martyr is the reason Russian universities have a party in the middle of winter.
How old is the name Teyanna?
Teyanna first appears in US birth records in 1983 — 42 years ago. The typical Teyanna alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 700 people named Teyanna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Teyanna most popular?
Teyanna peaked in 2007, reaching #4380 nationally. Today it ranks #10917, 6,537 places below that high. See the whole 2007 chart.
Where it comes from
From Tatius to Teyanna
The story of Teyanna
Tatiana was a Roman name of no great distinction until a martyr carried it and the Eastern church kept her day. Russia then did something unusual with it. The empress signed the founding decree of Moscow University on Saint Tatiana's day, the university adopted her, and by the nineteenth century the feast had turned into a general students' holiday with almost nothing religious left in it. Pushkin gave the name his heroine in Eugene Onegin, at a time when it was considered too rustic for a novel, and the name has been ordinary in Russia ever since. Teyanna is one of the American respellings of Tiana, the shortened form.
Meaning
of the Tatius family
Through Tatiana, the feminine of the Roman family name Tatius. Titus Tatius was the Sabine king who, in the legend, ruled Rome jointly with Romulus after the two peoples merged. The name says which family a woman belonged to and nothing else, which is how Roman women's names worked.
How the name formed
- Tatius
- Tatiana
- Tiana
- Teyanna
Related forms: Tatiana · Tatiana · Tacjana
Pronouncing Teyanna
tay-AN-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. tee-AN-uh is also used and follows Tiana rather than the ey spelling. The doubled n changes nothing you can hear.
Nicknames for Teyanna
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
- 1983
- Most girls named
- 200734 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4380reached in 2007
- Change vs 2024
- −38.5%8 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.
Teyanna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tatiana in Russian — related form
- Tatiana in Italian — related form
- Tacjana in Polish — related form
Teyannas among us
people named Teyanna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 200,908 born in 2025 was named Teyanna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Teyanna
- #10917
- Teyanna on the 2025 chart
- #921
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Teyanna went to 8 girls in 2025, but Teyana is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 39, which makes it the 921st most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,996 places above the chart.
- Teyana31
- Teyanna8
About 1 girl in 41,212 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 200,908 for Teyanna 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 Misa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Teyanna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Misa climbed just as high around 1990, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Misa's path sketches the road Teyanna is walking now.
Teyanna 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
Teyanna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Teyanna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Roman origin and a parent name with an unbroken record in eastern Europe.
- Tanya is available as a short form with a history of its own.
- Three open syllables and a stress pattern strangers usually get right.
- Tiana, Teyana and Tianna are all in use, so the spelling will need giving every time.
- It will be heard as a version of Tiana rather than as a name in its own right.
- The meaning is a Roman family label rather than a description of anything.
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Frequently asked
- How many Teyannas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Teyanna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Teyanna?
- Teyanna is one of 2 recorded spellings. Teyana is the more common one — 31 births in 2025 against 8 for Teyanna.
- How popular is the name Teyanna in 2025?
- Teyanna ranks #10917 among US girl names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Teyanna?
- About 1 in every 200,908 US girls born in 2025 was named Teyanna — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Teyanna with classmates?
- Teyanna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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