Tenley
#2,458 for girls in 2025, 72 births · Last seen for boys in 2018 at #12,156
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 736 births
- Debut · girls
- 12 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,854since 1953
Tenley over time
Rank among girls' names. Tenley has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,458 | 72 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,118 | 90 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,750 | 117 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,350 | 173 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,249 | 188 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,054 | 237 | — | |
| 2019 | #947 | 279 | — | |
| 2018 | #754 | 361 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #746 | 376 | — | |
| 2016 | #549 | 569 | — | |
| 2015 | #670 | 427 | — | |
| 2014 | #626 | 458 | — | |
| 2013 | #563 | 517 | — | |
| 2012 | #520 | 583 | — | |
| 2011 | #424 | 736 | — | |
| 2010 | #459 | 672 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,892 | 60 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,718 | 67 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,168 | 54 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,940 | 58 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,827 | 58 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,589 | 64 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,187 | 79 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,605 | 59 | — | |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | — | |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | — | |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | — | |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | — | |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 | — | |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | — | |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 | — | |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | — | |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | — | |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | — | |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,613 | 13 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,318 | 25 | — | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | — | |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | — | |
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| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 | — | |
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| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | — | |
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| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 | — | |
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| 1963 | #3,635 | 13 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,741 | 20 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,839 | 19 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,904 | 18 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,972 | 16 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,194 | 25 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,571 | 11 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,269 | 12 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tenley! It came in at #3,269, and was given to 12 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Tenley is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- South Dakota#196 · 1 in 529
- North Dakota#198 · 1 in 560
- Wisconsin#320 · 1 in 1,298
- Nebraska#340 · 1 in 1,185
- Minnesota#397 · 1 in 1,666
Best ever in a state: #57 in South Dakota, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | #196 | 5 | 1 in 529 |
| North Dakota | #198 | 5 | 1 in 560 |
| Wisconsin | #320 | 16 | 1 in 1,298 |
| Nebraska | #340 | 6 | 1 in 1,185 |
| Minnesota | #397 | 13 | 1 in 1,666 |
| Pennsylvania | #645 | 16 | 1 in 3,022 |
| Virginia | #759 | 9 | 1 in 3,793 |
| Tennessee | #779 | 8 | 1 in 3,796 |
| Massachusetts | #841 | 5 | 1 in 4,772 |
| Colorado | #857 | 5 | 1 in 4,309 |
| Illinois | #859 | 11 | 1 in 4,432 |
| Maryland | #905 | 5 | 1 in 4,463 |
| Michigan | #962 | 7 | 1 in 5,407 |
| North Carolina | #1,085 | 7 | 1 in 6,233 |
| Texas | #1,111 | 23 | 1 in 6,650 |
| Ohio | #1,152 | 7 | 1 in 6,843 |
| Florida | #1,269 | 10 | 1 in 8,046 |
| New York | #1,409 | 9 | 1 in 8,842 |
| California | #1,708 | 13 | 1 in 13,401 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Tenley
- 340 spots since 2024 (#2,118 → #2,458)
- 1,404 spots since 2020 (#1,054 → #2,458)
- 1,788 spots since 2015 (#670 → #2,458)
- Biggest jump: 2,433 spots in 2010 (#2,892 → #459)
- Biggest drop: 197 spots in 2017 (#549 → #746)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 2011 at #424 (736 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2010–2019
- Highest: 1 in 2,390 girls born in 2011 were named Tenley (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,323 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 72.6% of all girls named Tenley (4,978) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 91 | #2,194 (1956) | #3,554 |
| 1960s | 93 | #2,741 (1962) | #4,148 |
| 1970s | 60 | #4,793 (1972) | #6,559 |
| 1980s | 117 | #3,318 (1980) | #6,440 |
| 1990s | 117 | #5,955 (1993) | #7,488 |
| 2000s | 521 | #2,187 (2003) | #3,952 |
| 2010s | 4,978 | #424 (2011) | #626 |
| 2020s | 877 | #1,054 (2020) | #1,663 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tenley in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
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1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 6,821 of them was named Tenley, which outranked 94.0% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.