Tenecia — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tenecia

The Social Security Administration has registered 301 babies named Tenecia between 1970 and 1998, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tenecia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 22 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tenecia performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 149 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Tenecia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tenecia in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tenecia 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 301 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.