Tenzin — #2270 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Tenzin

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,590 babies named Tenzin between 1992 and 2024, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tenzin currently holds the #2270 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 86 babies received it in a single year. Tenzin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,217 additional births since 1996.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tenzin performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 758 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Tenzin shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 634 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Tenzin in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tenzin 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 1,590 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.