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Teniola

Gender
Girl
Say it
teh-nee-OH-la
Origin
Yoruba
UK rank, 2025
#4,276 for girls
US rank, 2025
#10,913 for girls

Teniola is a girls' name of Yoruba origin, meaning “wealth is mine”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies) and 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

What does Teniola mean?

Yoruba: Yoruba sentence name built on ola 'wealth'

“wealth is mine”

Is Teniola a girl's or a boy's name?

Teniola is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK and 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Teniola in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#4,276among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 56,000 girls
Five-year trend
Risingup 43% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Teniola, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2009, with 11 girls.

Half of all the girls named Teniola in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2019. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

In 2019, 70% of the babies named Teniola in the UK were girls.

Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 11 in 20092025
Teniola in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#4,276
20248#3,076
20237#3,388
20228#3,050
20214#4,864
20200–
20197#3,340
20187#3,344
20170–
20164#4,980
20156#3,777
20146#3,702
20136#3,719
20120–
20116#3,737
20105#4,220
200911#2,298
200810#2,454
20078#2,790
20066#3,280
20055#3,543
20044#3,916
20030–
20025#3,047
20010–
20000–
19994#3,374
19980–
19970–
19964#3,289

How popular is Teniola in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,913among girls
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 200,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Teniola, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.

Half of all the girls named Teniola in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

1997Busiest: 15 in 20132025
Teniola in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
20245#15,288
20235#15,188
20229#10,377
20218#11,141
20209#10,245
20199#10,467
201813#8,142
201714#7,836
201610#10,109
20150–
201410#10,124
201315#7,744
201211#9,706
20119#11,175
20106#14,953
20097#13,698
20089#11,594
20075#17,630
20065#17,163
20058#11,828
20040–
20030–
20020–
20015#15,345
20000–
19990–
19986#12,420
19976#12,065

Nicknames for Teniola

Names like Teniola

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Teniola: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/teniola, updated 20 October 2026.