Girls' name · since 1961
Tenya
Tenya has 82 recorded births since 1961 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1976 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #29,415 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 82
- born since 1961
- 2000s
- peak decade
Tenya sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 82 recorded since 1961.
Tenya has 82 recorded births among girls since 1961, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1961 to 2006.
- #29,415 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 82 born since 1961
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Tenya ranks #29,415 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 82 born since 1961, peaking in the 2000s.
- #29,415 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 82
- born since 1961
- 2000s
- peak decade
Tenya's 82 recorded births place it above 59.31% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Tenya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Tenya splits its recorded history at 1980: 49% of all births land in the more recent half, 51% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1967 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1976 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Tenya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1961–2006
- Peak year (1976)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 46 years of records
Tenya by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (30 births, 37% of the file).
2000s was Tenya's strongest decade.
30 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 37% of all-time use.
Tenya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s
1960s
17 births
- 1970s
1970s
25 births
- 1980s 10
1980s
10 births
- 2000s
2000s
30 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 30 births (37% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Tenya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1961–2006 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Tenya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.