Tennille
Tennille was given to 5 girls in 2025, #17,029 among girls’ names; 2,199 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,100 Americans named Tennille and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 46 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tennille by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tennille?
#17,029 among girls’ names, 2025
Tennille entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #17,029 in 2025.
777 babies in 1976, the peak
Tennille peaked in 1976, when 777 babies were given it (769 girls, #300 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,029 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,343 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,842 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,344 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,947 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,311 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,341 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,014 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,207 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #11,019 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 12 | #8,491 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,748 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,968 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,767 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,678 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,468 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,501 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,276 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,295 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,501 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,870 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,265 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,545 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,236 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,620 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 46 | #2,153 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 70 | #1,651 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 87 | #1,421 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 140 | #1,028 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 113 | #1,177 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 141 | #984 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 425 | #462 | 0.28 |
| 1976 | 769 | #300 | 0.52 |
| 1975 | 103 | #1,137 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tennille a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tennille has been given almost only to girls: 15 boys in 34 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tennille: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tennille, and how old are they?
2,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,199 Americans ever recorded as Tennille. The median Tennille alive today is 49 years old; half are between 46 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,933 people named Tennille (1,918 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,111 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,620 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 375 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 92 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Tennille born?
The states with the most babies named Tennille are New York, California and Illinois, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 154 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 141 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 129 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 90 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 84 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 73 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 68 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 66 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 43 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 41 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Tennille is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tennille is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1975 it was given 1.1 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 Tennille 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,510 babies since 1880, Tennille is the most given (63% 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 Tennille
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 Tennille and names like it
- Compare Tennille and TenilleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTennille peaked in 1976.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tennille since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Tennille.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tennille alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.