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Tea

A short form of Teodora, built from the Greek theos, god, and doron, gift: a gift of god. It is barely used in Poland, and most people here have never met one.

Tea Pronunciation

Tea is pronounced TE-ah (/ˈtɛa/).

Alive in 2025
265
Newborns 2025
<2
National rank
#1877

What Tea means

Where Tea comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Tea comes from Greek. The meaning "gift of god" sits inside two old words: theos, meaning god, and doron, meaning gift. Longer names built from that pair, Teodora and Dorotea, held the sense of a child given by heaven, and Tea grew up as their short form.

On a Polish class register the name reads fast and clean. Three letters. It sits between a Zuzanna and an Amelia without any need for explanation, though the Greek root behind it reaches back a good deal further than the modern spelling suggests.

The short meaning stays close because Tea never wandered far from Teodora. What the longer name spelled out, this one keeps folded up. The origin is Greek, and the sense stays plain: dar od boga, a gift of god.

How many people are named Tea

1 in 85718 women in Poland is named Tea. 265 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1877 among female names.

People with the name Tea 2019 → 2025
265 +224 since 2019
2020 60 +19
2021 82 +22
2022 145 +63
2023 196 +51
2024 234 +38
2025 265 +31

Tea's popularity over time

Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.

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<2 newborns with the name Tea in 2025
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Tea as a middle name

Tea is a first name for 265 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 96/4 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2337th, between Tamira (11) and Thùy (11).

As a first name
265
As a middle name
11
first name 96% middle name 4%

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