Tenna
Tenna was last recorded in 1993, when 6 babies were given it; 559 Americans have been recorded with it between 1902 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tenna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tenna mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Tenna is “a female given name”
A 19th century diminutive form of Hortensia.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tenna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,293, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1961, the peak
Tenna peaked in 1961, when 33 girls were given it, #2,066 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 6 | #13,293 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,294 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,087 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,783 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,331 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,366 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,939 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,147 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 8 | #8,067 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 7 | #9,011 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | #10,760 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,135 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,106 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,163 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,506 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,093 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,311 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,187 | 11.3 |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,476 | 15.8 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,278 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,741 | 12.4 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,251 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,188 | 16.4 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,769 | 10.9 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,456 | 12.7 |
| 1961 | 33 | #2,066 | 16.3 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,295 | 13.4 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,752 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,571 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 29 | #2,064 | 14.2 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,807 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,556 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,538 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,560 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,531 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,468 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,241 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,958 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,424 | 6.2 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,176 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,304 | 3.6 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,146 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,526 | 4.2 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,238 | 6.0 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,768 | 22.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tenna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tenna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tenna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tenna, and how old are they?
An estimated 458 Americans named Tenna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 55 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 468 people named Tenna (457 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 482 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below 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 22,972 babies since 1880, Tenna is the eighth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 48 babies recorded by SSA was a Tenna (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Tenna
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 Tenna and names like it
- Compare Tenna and TenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTenna peaked in 1961.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tenna since 1910.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Tenna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Tenna.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tenna alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.