Tinley

Where Tinley comes from

Probably a variant of Tenley.
— Wiktionary's entry for Tinley
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 2002
    First appearance
    #5,444 among girls, 21 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2016
    Peak, #794
    358 babies named Tinley — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2022
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,515.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely known Tinley turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.