Tinnie
Tinnie was last recorded in 1980, when 6 babies were given it; 954 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tinnie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tinnie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,297, in 1980; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1918, the peak
Tinnie peaked in 1918, when 30 girls were given it, #1,446 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 6 | #10,297 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,764 | 4.1 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,534 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,258 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,857 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,227 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,600 | 4.4 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,184 | 4.9 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,647 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,933 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 10 | #3,777 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,788 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 5 | #6,032 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,377 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,613 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,317 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,587 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,586 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,658 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,682 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,799 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,530 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,563 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,944 | 16.4 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,428 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,722 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,672 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,423 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,419 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,143 | 14.9 |
| 1932 | 10 | #3,028 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,865 | 17.8 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,292 | 13.3 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,904 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,776 | 19.9 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,421 | 12.6 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,558 | 11.8 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,112 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 20 | #2,056 | 16.0 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,449 | 12.4 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,279 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,979 | 17.0 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,250 | 14.2 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,643 | 22.1 |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,446 | 25.9 |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,601 | 22.2 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,577 | 23.0 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,734 | 20.3 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,810 | 19.7 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,871 | 19.2 |
| 1912 | 19 | #1,248 | 34.0 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,175 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 14 | #1,263 | 35.3 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,143 | 40.3 |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,080 | 17.9 |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,280 | 34.5 |
| 1906 | 14 | #1,039 | 47.4 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,231 | 37.7 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,468 | 29.1 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,425 | 30.5 |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,126 | 41.7 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,216 | 37.6 |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,098 | 43.4 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,816 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 14 | #956 | 54.1 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,532 | 25.6 |
| 1896 | 13 | #945 | 54.6 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,196 | 38.5 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,472 | 26.9 |
| 1893 | 13 | #863 | 61.1 |
| 1892 | 11 | #951 | 51.8 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,519 | 27.0 |
| 1890 | 12 | #821 | 63.0 |
| 1889 | 8 | #1,017 | 44.9 |
| 1888 | 14 | #722 | 78.4 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,292 | 34.3 |
| 1886 | 8 | #889 | 55.4 |
| 1885 | 6 | #1,037 | 45.1 |
| 1884 | 9 | #784 | 69.8 |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,041 | 44.5 |
| 1882 | 6 | #895 | 55.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tinnie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tinnie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tinnie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tinnie, and how old are they?
An estimated 170 Americans named Tinnie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (18% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 67 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 210 people named Tinnie (204 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 231 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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 3,686 babies since 1880, Tinnie is the most given (26% of them).
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 Tinnie
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 Tinnie and names like it
- Compare Tinnie and TionneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sTinnie peaked in 1918.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tinnie since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Tinnie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tinnie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.