Teia
Unheard of in Poland until a few years ago, it's now given to a slowly growing handful of girls, all of them female. From Greek, linked to Theia, a goddess: the sense is "divine" or "heavenly".
Teia Pronunciation
Teia is pronounced TE-yah (/ˈtɛja/).
What Teia means
Where Teia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Teia comes from Greek. Behind it stands theia, the feminine of theios, meaning divine, and a close relative of theos, god. The plain sense is goddess.
In Hesiod's Theogony, Theia is a Titaness. Ancient poets made her the mother of Helios the sun, Selene the moon, and Eos the dawn. The Homeric Hymn to Helios gives the sun a mother named Euryphaessa, the wide-shining, whom later writers matched with Theia. The Greek theia was the ordinary word for a goddess, so a girl called Teia holds the shorter shape of that old word.
Read a Polish class register and the name takes four letters, easy to call at an imieniny or write on a form at the urząd. Its Polish sense stays close to the Greek: boskie, niebiańskie. The origin is one word, theia, goddess.
How many people are named Teia
1 in 409888 women in Poland is named Teia. 55 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5043 among female names.
Teia's popularity over time
11 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #675 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2021.
Where Teia is most popular
Teia is most popular in Lesser Poland, 297% above the national average (5 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+244%) and Greater Poland (+67%).
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Lesser Poland5 girls born+297%
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Lower Silesian3 girls born+244%
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Greater Poland2 girls born+67%
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Masovian2 girls born+2%