Tenzing
Tenzing was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 80 Americans have been recorded with it between 1998 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tenzing by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tenzing?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,833, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 2008, the peak
Tenzing peaked in 2008, when 13 babies were given it (8 boys, #9,766 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | #18,199 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 5 | #13,833 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #13,840 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 7 | #10,606 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 5 | #14,033 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,207 | 8 | #9,766 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 6 | #11,898 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,582 | 7 | #9,822 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 6 | #10,735 | |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,241 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | under 5 | 10 | #6,246 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Tenzing a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 80 Americans recorded as Tenzing, 26% are girls and 74% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tenzing: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tenzing, and how old are they?
An estimated 79 Americans named Tenzing and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 602 people named Tenzing (220 women and girls, 382 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 79 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tenzing
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 Tenzing and names like it
- Compare Tenzing and LogenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTenzing peaked in 2008.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tenzing since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Tenzing.
- Names starting with TMost given first.