Tenia — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tenia

The Social Security Administration has registered 981 babies named Tenia between 1918 and 2019, spanning 102 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tenia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 38 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tenia performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 203 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Tenia 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 Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Tenia in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tenia 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 981 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.