Tennyson — #3785 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Tennyson

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,165 babies named Tennyson between 1913 and 2024, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tennyson currently holds the #3785 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 48 babies received it in a single year. Tennyson is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 390 additional births since 2003.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tennyson performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 401 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Tennyson shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 44 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Colorado. In total, SSA state-level files list Tennyson in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tennyson 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 1,165 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.