Girl
Tekla
Meaning
This name is in the birth records, but its history has not yet been added to the library. We add meanings only when they can be given with a source.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 445 babies given this name since 1889
- At its height in 1889, about 1 in 25,500 girls
- 5 babies in 2020
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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