Fun Facts About the Name Teanna
- More than 2 thousand babies named Teanna: U.S. records list 2,372 babies given the name Teanna from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Teanna Mean?
Teanna is a feminine name used mainly in the United States and is best understood as a spelling variant of Tiana or Tianna. Those names are usually treated as short forms of Tatiana, the Russian and Eastern European form of the Latin Tatiana, feminine of Tatianus. Tatianus was a Roman family name (a cognomen) built on Tatius, the name of the Sabine king Titus Tatius in Roman legend. The base Tatius is not securely explained and appears to be Sabine or pre-Roman, so the name has no reliably documented literal meaning.
Because Teanna is a respelling rather than a separate tradition, it carries no independent meaning. One competing explanation treats Tiana as a short form of Christiana, the feminine of Christian, which would give the sense "follower of Christ"; this is sometimes suggested but is not firmly documented for Teanna. Popular name lists occasionally gloss Tatiana as "fairy queen," which is a later symbolic reading rather than an established etymology.
Teanna Name History & Origins
The name behind Teanna is Tatiana, borne by an early Christian martyr of Rome traditionally dated to the 3rd century and venerated in the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. Her cult helped spread the name through the Greek-speaking and Slavic world, where it became the Russian Татьяна. In Russia it was in common use long before modern times, and it appears in literature as the heroine Tatiana Larina in Alexander Pushkin's verse novel Eugene Onegin (published 1825 - 1832).
The shorter forms Tiana and Tianna later entered English use, especially in the United States, and also occur in Spanish- and Italian-speaking settings. Teanna is a further re-spelling within that group. As a variant, it has no separate history of its own beyond the spelling preferences of the families who used it, and its development follows the Tiana - Tatiana line rather than any distinct linguistic tradition.
How Popular is the Name Teanna?
Teanna has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 1996. Its best rank was #1,562 in 1996.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #13,065 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2024 | #7,536 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2023 | #11,071 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 2021 | #7,992 | 14 | 0.0009% |
| 2020 | #8,900 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2019 | #9,057 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2018 | #6,218 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2017 | #9,870 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2016 | #5,433 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2015 | #6,011 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 2014 | #6,424 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2013 | #7,006 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2012 | #4,950 | 29 | 0.0016% |
| 2011 | #3,777 | 41 | 0.0023% |
| 2010 | #3,618 | 44 | 0.0025% |
| 2009 | #3,865 | 41 | 0.0022% |
| 2008 | #3,773 | 43 | 0.0023% |
| 2007 | #2,642 | 70 | 0.0036% |
| 2006 | #3,363 | 49 | 0.0026% |
| 2005 | #2,576 | 67 | 0.0036% |
| 2004 | #2,479 | 69 | 0.0038% |
| 2003 | #2,437 | 68 | 0.0037% |
| 2002 | #1,954 | 91 | 0.0051% |
| 2001 | #1,967 | 88 | 0.0049% |
| 2000 | #1,853 | 93 | 0.0051% |
| 1999 | #1,827 | 88 | 0.0050% |
| 1998 | #1,633 | 100 | 0.0057% |
| 1997 | #1,740 | 89 | 0.0051% |
| 1996 | #1,562 | 102 | 0.0058% |
| 1995 | #1,713 | 86 | 0.0049% |
| 1994 | #1,994 | 71 | 0.0040% |
| 1993 | #1,707 | 88 | 0.0049% |
| 1992 | #1,945 | 72 | 0.0039% |
| 1991 | #2,187 | 61 | 0.0033% |
| 1990 | #2,172 | 60 | 0.0032% |
| 1989 | #2,300 | 52 | 0.0028% |
| 1988 | #2,329 | 48 | 0.0027% |
| 1987 | #1,989 | 57 | 0.0033% |
| 1986 | #2,614 | 38 | 0.0022% |
| 1985 | #2,434 | 41 | 0.0024% |
| 1984 | #2,017 | 51 | 0.0030% |
| 1983 | #2,650 | 34 | 0.0020% |
| 1982 | #2,696 | 35 | 0.0021% |
| 1981 | #2,559 | 37 | 0.0022% |
| 1980 | #3,403 | 25 | 0.0015% |
| 1979 | #3,893 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 1978 | #3,766 | 20 | 0.0013% |
| 1977 | #4,918 | 14 | 0.0009% |
| 1976 | #3,397 | 21 | 0.0014% |
| 1975 | #4,116 | 16 | 0.0011% |
| 1974 | #10,095 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1972 | #4,504 | 13 | 0.0009% |
| 1971 | #9,494 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1970 | #6,993 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1969 | #6,544 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1968 | #8,077 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1967 | #6,724 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1964 | #5,427 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1963 | #5,839 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1961 | #7,430 | 5 | 0.0002% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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