Tiny

Where Tiny comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Tiny.

  • Vowel-ended
Tiny through the years
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #830 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #583
    13 babies named Tiny, its best rank.
  3. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1894
    Tiny Sandford born
    American actor
  5. 1903
    Tiny Thompson born
    Canadian ice hockey goaltender: first goaltender to stop the puck by catching it
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Tiny Sandford · American actor, 1894–1961
  • Tiny Thompson · Canadian ice hockey goaltender: first goaltender to stop the puck by catching it, 1903–1981
  • Tiny Kahn · American drummer, 1924–1953
  • Tiny Kox · politician from the Netherlands, born 1953
  • Tiny Broadwick · Skydiver and stunt performer, 1893–1978

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.