Tien
- Last seen for girls in 2021 at #15,251
- #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
- Given to boys 61.7% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1981 · 22 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 814since 1975
Tien over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | — | #6,143 | 14 | |
| 2024 | — | #9,894 | 7 | |
| 2023 | — | #8,921 | 8 | |
| 2022 | — | #12,330 | 5 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | #7,173 | 11 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | — | #10,775 | 6 | |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #8,816 | 8 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | #3,982 | 26 |
| 2014 | — | #5,252 | 17 | |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 | #6,241 | 13 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #4,862 | 19 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #4,509 | 21 |
| 2010 | — | #4,848 | 19 | |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | #6,130 | 22 | #5,067 | 18 |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #4,105 | 23 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #4,198 | 21 |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #3,366 | 27 |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 | #3,909 | 21 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #6,013 | 11 |
| 2000 | #5,312 | 21 | #4,785 | 15 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | #3,986 | 18 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #5,417 | 18 | #3,261 | 22 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 | #4,022 | 16 |
| 1995 | #6,641 | 13 | #3,559 | 18 |
| 1994 | #5,445 | 17 | #3,215 | 21 |
| 1993 | #4,671 | 21 | #3,368 | 19 |
| 1992 | #3,866 | 27 | #2,412 | 30 |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 | #2,915 | 22 |
| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 | #2,865 | 22 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | #4,017 | 13 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | #2,765 | 20 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | #2,641 | 20 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #2,290 | 24 |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 | #2,504 | 20 |
| 1984 | #5,899 | 11 | #2,706 | 17 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | #3,884 | 10 |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 | #2,341 | 21 |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 | #2,270 | 22 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #2,831 | 16 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | — | #3,614 | 10 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,836 | 9 | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #3,724 | 9 |
| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1975
The first year at least five boys were named Tien! It came in at #5,464, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Tien is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Tien in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Tien
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 3,751 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #6,143)
- 153 spots since 2020 (#6,296 → #6,143)
- 2,161 spots since 2015 (#3,982 → #6,143)
Rise & fade · boys
6 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1981 at #2,270 (22 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 66,580
- Highest: 1 in 66,580 boys born in 1992 were named Tien (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,270 in 1981, was only 1 in 81,417 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 24.9% of all boys named Tien (203) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2017
- Mostly girls until 2016, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 42 | #3,614 (1978) | #4,141 |
| 1980s | 183 | #2,270 (1981) | #2,825 |
| 1990s | 203 | #2,412 (1992) | #3,402 |
| 2000s | 173 | #3,366 (2003) | #5,183 |
| 2010s | 153 | #3,982 (2015) | #6,280 |
| 2020s | 60 | #6,143 (2025) | #8,320 |
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.
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