Tinley
Tinley was given to 63 girls in 2025, #2,748 among girls’ names; 3,663 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,640 Americans named Tinley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 7 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tinley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tinley mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tinley is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Probably a variant of Tenley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tinley?
#2,748 among girls’ names, 2025
Tinley fell from #976 in 2015 to #2,748 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.16 to 0.04 per 1,000.
358 babies in 2016, the peak
Tinley peaked in 2016, when 358 girls were given it, #795 among girls’ names. The 63 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,748 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 79 | #2,345 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 93 | #2,089 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 143 | #1,517 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 180 | #1,283 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 206 | #1,151 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 275 | #959 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 274 | #966 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 328 | #829 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 358 | #795 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 278 | #976 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 236 | #1,088 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 251 | #1,000 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 259 | #976 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 273 | #948 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 178 | #1,327 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,295 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,076 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,486 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,944 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,587 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,694 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 34 | #4,025 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,653 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tinley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tinley has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tinley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tinley, and how old are they?
3,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,663 Americans ever recorded as Tinley. The median Tinley alive today is 10 years old; half are between 7 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 2,766 people named Tinley (2,741 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,932 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 892 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,750 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Tinley born?
The states with the most babies named Tinley are Texas, Indiana and North Carolina, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #2,191 | 1.2× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,193 | 2.4× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,664 | 1.0× |
Where Tinley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tinley is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 2002 it was given 3.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tinley with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,625 babies since 1880, Tinley is the most given (79% of them). In 2025 it was given to 63 of their 83 babies (76%), again the most given.
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 Tinley
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 Tinley and names like it
- Compare Tinley and TynleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTinley peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tinley since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Tinley: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Tinley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tinley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.