Tennison — boys' name

What the Data Says About Tennison

The Social Security Administration has registered 44 babies named Tennison between 2012 and 2023, spanning 12 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tennison currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Tennison is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 7 additional births since 2016.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tennison performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 32 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Tennison shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tennison 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 44 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.