Tin
Tin was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 436 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tin mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Tin is “a male given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,854, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1993, the peak
Tin peaked in 1993, when 18 boys were given it, #3,641 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #13,854 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,993 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #12,089 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 6 | #12,024 | 3.2 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,536 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,493 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,644 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #12,128 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,716 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,922 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 10 | #8,241 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #8,103 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,273 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,173 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,985 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,846 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,364 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,866 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,547 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #7,060 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,391 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,214 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,936 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,825 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,263 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,641 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 9 | #6,083 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,610 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,147 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,555 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,891 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,408 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,725 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,657 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,520 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,614 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,268 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,186 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,899 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,988 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tin, and how old are they?
An estimated 422 Americans named Tin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 4,377 people named Tin (1,012 women and girls, 3,365 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 423 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10.3 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 spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,584 babies since 1880, Tin is the sixth most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 203 babies recorded by SSA was a Tin (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tin
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 Tin and names like it
- Compare Tin and TitanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTin peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tin since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Tin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Tin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.