Tenzin
#3,975 for girls in 2025, 36 births · #2,230 for boys in 2025, 63 births
Given to boys 56.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 86 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,653since 1992
Tenzin over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,975 | 36 | #2,230 | 63 |
| 2024 | #3,176 | 50 | #2,261 | 63 |
| 2023 | #2,646 | 66 | #2,693 | 48 |
| 2022 | #3,313 | 48 | #2,168 | 67 |
| 2021 | #3,339 | 47 | #2,464 | 54 |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 | #2,212 | 62 |
| 2019 | #2,923 | 56 | #1,974 | 74 |
| 2018 | #3,050 | 53 | #2,122 | 66 |
| 2017 | #3,145 | 51 | #1,844 | 80 |
| 2016 | #3,182 | 51 | #1,774 | 86 |
| 2015 | #3,024 | 56 | #1,895 | 77 |
| 2014 | #3,041 | 55 | #1,751 | 86 |
| 2013 | #3,218 | 50 | #1,903 | 74 |
| 2012 | #3,094 | 54 | #1,787 | 83 |
| 2011 | #3,173 | 52 | #2,017 | 67 |
| 2010 | #3,256 | 50 | #2,069 | 65 |
| 2009 | #2,852 | 61 | #2,143 | 63 |
| 2008 | #3,158 | 53 | #2,265 | 58 |
| 2007 | #3,482 | 47 | #2,235 | 59 |
| 2006 | #4,073 | 36 | #2,698 | 43 |
| 2005 | #3,809 | 38 | #2,467 | 46 |
| 2004 | #4,707 | 28 | #2,643 | 40 |
| 2003 | #3,869 | 35 | #3,119 | 30 |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 | #2,556 | 38 |
| 2001 | #5,364 | 21 | #3,061 | 29 |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 | #2,621 | 35 |
| 1999 | #3,804 | 31 | #2,865 | 29 |
| 1998 | #4,796 | 22 | #2,926 | 27 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | — | #5,928 | 9 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
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| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tenzin! It came in at #7,422, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1993, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Tenzin is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New York#476 · 1 in 2,956
- Minnesota#584 · 1 in 3,384
- California#1,609 · 1 in 21,571
Best ever in a state: #338 in Minnesota, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #476 | 33 | 1 in 2,956 |
| Minnesota | #584 | 8 | 1 in 3,384 |
| California | #1,609 | 10 | 1 in 21,571 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Tenzin
- 31 spots since 2024 (#2,261 → #2,230)
- 18 spots since 2020 (#2,212 → #2,230)
- 335 spots since 2015 (#1,895 → #2,230)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2014 at #1,751 (86 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,067 boys born in 2016 were named Tenzin (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,112 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,751 in 2014, was only 1 in 22,336 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 45.9% of all boys named Tenzin (758) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2023, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 97 | #2,865 (1999) | #5,390 |
| 2000s | 441 | #2,143 (2009) | #2,581 |
| 2010s | 758 | #1,751 (2014) | #1,914 |
| 2020s | 357 | #2,168 (2022) | #2,338 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tenzin in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 33,852 of them was named Tenzin, which outranked 83.0% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,091Zari52
- #3,091Zemirah52
- #3,091Zooey52
- #3,145Tenzin51
- #3,145Abriana51
- #3,145Adamaris51
- #3,145Adore51
- #3,192Alethea50
- #3,192Alexi50
- #3,192Aleya50
Tied with 46 names at #3,145; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 23,137 of them was named Tenzin, which outranked 87.1% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,829Samarth81
- #1,829Terence81
- #1,829Yandel81
- #1,844Tenzin80
- #1,844Adnan80
- #1,844Breck80
- #1,844Izaac80
- #1,861Aasim79
- #1,861Aris79
- #1,861Everette79
Tied with 16 names at #1,844; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.