Tea
Meaning and origin
We don't have a sourced origin for Tea yet, and we would rather show nothing than guess.
Popularity in Sweden
Among newborns, Tea has been fairly steady over the last few years. Its best year between 1998 and 2022 was 2006. The figures are for this exact spelling; other spellings of the name are counted on their own.
Years with fewer than two babies (fewer than ten before 2004) show as zero in the chart and as – in the table.
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| Year | Girls |
|---|---|
| 1998 | 29 |
| 1999 | 29 |
| 2000 | 34 |
| 2001 | 56 |
| 2002 | 79 |
| 2003 | 57 |
| 2004 | 76 |
| 2005 | 46 |
| 2006 | 94 |
| 2007 | 60 |
| 2008 | 70 |
| 2009 | 49 |
| 2010 | 62 |
| 2011 | 44 |
| 2012 | 44 |
| 2013 | 54 |
| 2014 | 17 |
| 2015 | 38 |
| 2016 | 25 |
| 2017 | 15 |
| 2018 | 17 |
| 2019 | 29 |
| 2020 | 25 |
| 2021 | 29 |
| 2022 | 23 |
Everyone registered in Sweden on 31 December with this as the first name they use.
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| Year | Women and girls |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 727 |
| 2000 | 737 |
| 2001 | 772 |
| 2002 | 829 |
| 2003 | 853 |
| 2004 | 899 |
| 2005 | 928 |
| 2006 | 995 |
| 2007 | 1,032 |
| 2008 | 1,095 |
| 2009 | 1,126 |
| 2010 | 1,178 |
| 2011 | 1,198 |
| 2012 | 1,223 |
| 2013 | 1,268 |
| 2014 | 1,279 |
| 2015 | 1,314 |
| 2016 | 1,330 |
| 2017 | 1,349 |
| 2018 | 1,368 |
| 2019 | 1,396 |
| 2020 | 1,415 |
Tea in a sentence
- Hej! Jag heter Tea.Hi! My name is Tea.
- Tea bor i Göteborg och pluggar till sjuksköterska.Tea lives in Gothenburg and is training to be a nurse.
- Jag ska fika med Tea i eftermiddag.I'm having coffee with Tea this afternoon.
- Teas mamma är lärare.Tea's mum is a teacher.
Swedish shows possession with a plain -s and no apostrophe: Teas mamma is Tea's mum.
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Questions about Tea
How do you pronounce Tea in Swedish?
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How popular is Tea in Sweden?
23 babies were named Tea in 2022. In 2020, 1,415 people in Sweden had Tea as the first name they go by. Among newborns the name has been fairly steady lately and peaked in 2006 in the years SCB covers (1998–2022).
Popularity figures: Statistics Sweden (SCB), name statistics (BE0001) from the Statistical Database, released as open data under CC0. Each spelling is counted as its own name, as SCB does. SCB's open name statistics end with babies named in 2022 and the population on 31 December 2020; SCB stopped producing name statistics in 2024 and now points to the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) for newer figures.
Origins, IPA and recordings: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), via kaikki.org; recordings from Lingua Libre on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA). Lingolib is not affiliated with SCB or Wiktionary. Sources last checked 7 October 2026.