Tennie
Tennie was last recorded in 1988, when 6 babies were given it; 2,796 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tennie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tennie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,664, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
79 babies in 1918, the peak
Tennie peaked in 1918, when 79 babies were given it (73 girls, #847 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 6 | #11,664 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,068 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,400 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #9,013 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,277 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,105 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,331 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,224 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,656 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,604 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 8 | #6,500 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,998 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,415 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,186 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,456 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,470 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,860 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,247 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,501 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,991 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,087 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,418 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,526 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,911 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,306 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,080 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,691 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,662 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,179 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,922 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,402 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,714 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,178 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 13 | #3,052 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 12 | #3,012 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,984 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 19 | #2,020 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 11 | #3,020 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,109 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,744 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,586 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,511 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,645 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,447 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,941 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,413 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,404 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 39 | #1,136 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,812 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,676 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,531 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 40 | #1,194 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 37 | #1,268 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 42 | #1,212 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 49 | #1,076 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,373 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 57 | #1,028 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 43 | #1,193 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 58 | #988 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 56 | #1,009 | 0.05 |
| 1920 | 47 | #1,100 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 46 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 73 | #847 | 0.06 |
| 1917 | 70 | #824 | 0.06 |
| 1916 | 55 | #926 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 53 | #913 | 0.05 |
| 1914 | 50 | #840 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 46 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 34 | #866 | 0.06 |
| 1911 | 33 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 46 | #629 | 0.12 |
| 1909 | 32 | #717 | 0.09 |
| 1908 | 39 | #614 | 0.12 |
| 1907 | 31 | #688 | 0.10 |
| 1906 | 29 | #687 | 0.10 |
| 1905 | 41 | #546 | 0.14 |
| 1904 | 43 | #507 | 0.16 |
| 1903 | 32 | #588 | 0.12 |
| 1902 | 38 | #526 | 0.14 |
| 1901 | 38 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1900 | 51 | #477 | 0.17 |
| 1899 | 25 | #627 | 0.11 |
| 1898 | 46 | #458 | 0.18 |
| 1897 | 46 | #436 | 0.20 |
| 1896 | 38 | #476 | 0.16 |
| 1895 | 45 | #424 | 0.19 |
| 1894 | 28 | #555 | 0.13 |
| 1893 | 32 | #485 | 0.15 |
| 1892 | 45 | #400 | 0.21 |
| 1891 | 43 | #386 | 0.23 |
| 1890 | 35 | #434 | 0.18 |
| 1889 | 25 | #512 | 0.14 |
| 1888 | 29 | #468 | 0.16 |
| 1887 | 28 | #421 | 0.19 |
| 1886 | 38 | #351 | 0.26 |
| 1885 | 27 | #402 | 0.20 |
| 1884 | 44 | #292 | 0.34 |
| 1883 | 32 | #319 | 0.28 |
| 1882 | 33 | #313 | 0.31 |
| 1881 | 25 | #324 | 0.27 |
| 1880 | 26 | #316 | 0.29 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tennie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tennie has been given almost only to girls: 19 boys in 102 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tennie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tennie, and how old are they?
An estimated 427 Americans named Tennie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (15% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 61 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 592 people named Tennie (552 women and girls, 40 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 556 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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).
Where are babies named Tennie born?
The states with the most babies named Tennie are Tennessee, Texas and Arkansas, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee and Arkansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 267 | not ranked | 5.9× |
| Texas | 248 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Arkansas | 60 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Alabama | 58 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Mississippi | 28 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Oklahoma | 28 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kentucky | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| West Virginia | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Tennie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tennie is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1910 it was given 5.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tennie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,061 babies since 1880, Tennie is the most given (55% 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 Tennie
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 Tennie and names like it
- Compare Tennie and TeniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sTennie peaked in 1918.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tennie since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Tennie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tennie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.