Tennessee — #5950 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Tennessee

The Social Security Administration has registered 959 babies named Tennessee between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tennessee currently holds the #5950 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 39 babies received it in a single year. Tennessee is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 369 additional births since 1995.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tennessee performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 228 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Tennessee shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Tennessee in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tennessee 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 959 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.