Tenaya
Tenaya was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 1,008 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tenaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tenaya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,078, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1975, the peak
Tenaya peaked in 1975, when 43 girls were given it, #2,054 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #15,078 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,322 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,142 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,486 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,531 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,392 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,756 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,063 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,562 | 9.0 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,966 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 13 | #8,918 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,560 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,362 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,579 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,176 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,651 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,420 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,301 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,810 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,946 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,693 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,295 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,603 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,155 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,799 | 18.7 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,431 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,624 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,141 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,043 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,660 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,686 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,979 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,219 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,219 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,214 | 12.6 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,507 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,879 | 13.5 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,590 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,171 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,622 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,861 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,424 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,516 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,844 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,714 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,532 | 14.3 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,908 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,599 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,276 | 15.0 |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,054 | 29.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,609 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,024 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,234 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tenaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tenaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tenaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tenaya, and how old are they?
An estimated 985 Americans named Tenaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 19 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 850 people named Tenaya (830 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 948 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Tenaya born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 303 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Nevada | 19 | not ranked | 2.8× |
Where Tenaya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tenaya is most over-represented in California: since 1971 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tenaya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,312 babies since 1880, Tenaya is the third most given (7.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 36 babies recorded by SSA was a Tenaya (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tenaya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tenaya and names like it
- Compare Tenaya and TenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTenaya peaked in 1975.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tenaya since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Tenaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tenaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.