Tenea
Tenea was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 168 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tenea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tenea?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #20,204, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1990, the peak
Tenea peaked in 1990, when 11 girls were given it, #7,832 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #20,204 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,602 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,736 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,698 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,372 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,571 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,515 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,431 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,467 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,587 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 11 | #8,014 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,546 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,832 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,601 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,707 | 2.8 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,258 | 4.6 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,984 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,397 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #8,066 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,107 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,100 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,540 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,756 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,949 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tenea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tenea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tenea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tenea, and how old are they?
An estimated 163 Americans named Tenea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 31 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 178 people named Tenea (177 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 165 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 20,603 babies since 1880, Tenea is the eighth most given (<1% of them).
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 Tenea
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 Tenea and names like it
- Compare Tenea and TenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTenea peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tenea since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Tenea.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tenea alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.