Tenzing — boys' name

What the Data Says About Tenzing

The Social Security Administration has registered 59 babies named Tenzing between 1998 and 2015, spanning 18 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tenzing currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Tenzing is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 21 additional births since 2002.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tenzing performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 27 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Tenzing shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tenzing in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tenzing 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 59 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.