Tinsley
#1,109 for girls in 2025, 213 births · Last seen for boys in 2017 at #12,246
Given to girls 98.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 388 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,659since 1982
Tinsley over time
Rank among girls' names. Tinsley has never cracked the top 700 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 | #1,109 | 213 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,369 | 166 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,001 | 254 | — | |
| 2022 | #915 | 300 | — | |
| 2021 | #900 | 301 | — | |
| 2020 | #718 | 388 | — | |
| 2019 | #805 | 341 | — | |
| 2018 | #773 | 353 | — | |
| 2017 | #838 | 324 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #965 | 280 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,007 | 266 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,134 | 221 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,093 | 224 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,188 | 207 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,061 | 232 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,206 | 200 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,892 | 60 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #2,773 | 65 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 | — | |
| 2006 | #5,086 | 27 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #5,113 | 25 | — | |
| 2004 | #6,768 | 17 | — | |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,381 | 28 | — | |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | — | |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | — | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | — | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | — | |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | — | |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 | — | |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | — | |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | — | |
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| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | — | |
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| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
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| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | — | |
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| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
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| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
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| 1947 | — | #2,862 | 8 | |
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| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
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| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
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| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
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| 1926 | — | #3,385 | 7 | |
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| 1920 | — | #3,208 | 8 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tinsley! It came in at #10,517, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1982–1984, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Tinsley is popular in 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oklahoma#417 · 1 in 1,686
- Alabama#443 · 1 in 1,934
- Kentucky#454 · 1 in 2,053
- Tennessee#516 · 1 in 2,393
- Louisiana#523 · 1 in 2,323
Best ever in a state: #190 in Montana, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #417 | 10 | 1 in 1,686 |
| Alabama | #443 | 10 | 1 in 1,934 |
| Kentucky | #454 | 9 | 1 in 2,053 |
| Tennessee | #516 | 13 | 1 in 2,393 |
| Louisiana | #523 | 9 | 1 in 2,323 |
| Missouri | #548 | 10 | 1 in 2,711 |
| Mississippi | #549 | 5 | 1 in 2,254 |
| South Carolina | #568 | 7 | 1 in 2,609 |
| Colorado | #689 | 7 | 1 in 3,320 |
| Indiana | #732 | 8 | 1 in 3,817 |
| Texas | #827 | 35 | 1 in 4,765 |
| Florida | #841 | 17 | 1 in 4,925 |
| North Carolina | #1,073 | 7 | 1 in 6,446 |
| Virginia | #1,164 | 5 | 1 in 7,463 |
| Georgia | #1,273 | 6 | 1 in 8,034 |
| Ohio | #1,460 | 5 | 1 in 10,588 |
| Illinois | #1,605 | 5 | 1 in 11,794 |
| California | #2,337 | 9 | 1 in 23,296 |
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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 Tinsley
- 260 spots since 2024 (#1,369 → #1,109)
- 391 spots since 2020 (#718 → #1,109)
- 102 spots since 2015 (#1,007 → #1,109)
- Biggest jump: 127 spots in 2017 (#965 → #838)
- Biggest drop: 182 spots in 2021 (#718 → #900)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2020 at #718 (388 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2016–2022
- Highest: 1 in 4,166 girls born in 2020 were named Tinsley (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,546 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 56.8% of all girls named Tinsley (2,648) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 31 | #7,749 (1986) | #9,449 |
| 1990s | 68 | #5,713 (1994) | #10,275 |
| 2000s | 290 | #2,773 (2008) | #5,707 |
| 2010s | 2,648 | #773 (2018) | #1,007 |
| 2020s | 1,622 | #718 (2020) | #1,002 |
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.
Tinsley in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 8,083 of them was named Tinsley, which outranked 94.1% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,128Lillyanna223
- #1,132Giavanna222
- #1,132Jaleah222
- #1,134Tinsley221
- #1,134Adilynn221
- #1,134Kendyl221
- #1,134Maddie221
- #1,139Emerald220
- #1,140Anneliese219
- #1,140Kyndal219
Tied with 4 names at #1,134; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.