Tenea — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tenea

The Social Security Administration has registered 168 babies named Tenea between 1975 and 2008, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tenea currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 11 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tenea performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 78 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Tenea shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tenea in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tenea in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 168 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.