Tenecia
Tenecia was last recorded in 1998, when 6 babies were given it; 301 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tenecia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tenecia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,955, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1983, the peak
Tenecia peaked in 1983, when 22 girls were given it, #3,673 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 6 | #13,955 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,294 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,287 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,475 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,202 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,547 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,263 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,521 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,165 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,303 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 11 | #6,559 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,623 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,709 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,673 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 20 | #4,014 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,281 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,750 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,143 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,933 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,632 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,173 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,898 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,994 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,602 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,217 | 4.6 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,776 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tenecia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tenecia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tenecia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tenecia, and how old are they?
An estimated 289 Americans named Tenecia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 37 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 298 people named Tenecia (298 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 292 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 949 babies since 1880, Tenecia is the second most given (32% 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 Tenecia
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 Tenecia and names like it
- Compare Tenecia and TenekaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTenecia peaked in 1983.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tenecia since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Tenecia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tenecia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.