Tesla
Girl · TESS-la · Slavic
Tesla is a girls' name of Slavic origin, meaning “adze”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Tesla mean?
Slavic: Serbian surname, from tesla 'adze'
“adze”
From the surname of the inventor Nikola Tesla; tesla is a Serbo-Croatian word for an adze, a woodworking tool.
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- TESS-la
Is Tesla a girl's or a boy's name?
Tesla is a girls' name.
How popular is Tesla in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2015, with 167 girls. It first appears in the records in 1985.
Half of all the girls named Tesla in the US since 1880 were born between 1995 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Tesla in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 13 | #8,050 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,224 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,603 |
| 2020 | 50 | #3,141 |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,400 |
| 2018 | 104 | #1,915 |
| 2017 | 134 | #1,614 |
| 2016 | 162 | #1,425 |
| 2015 | 167 | #1,399 |
| 2014 | 113 | #1,804 |
| 2013 | 135 | #1,587 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,955 |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,554 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,905 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,851 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,005 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,474 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,462 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,700 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,089 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,230 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,726 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,627 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,586 |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,564 |
| 1998 | 53 | #2,567 |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,861 |
| 1996 | 83 | #1,778 |
| 1995 | 95 | #1,584 |
| 1994 | 96 | #1,579 |
| 1993 | 108 | #1,469 |
| 1992 | 145 | #1,200 |
| 1991 | 122 | #1,339 |
| 1990 | 107 | #1,452 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,667 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,491 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,348 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,672 |
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