Tiny
Tiny was last recorded in 1993, when 6 babies were given it; 2,248 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tiny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tiny mean?
Wiktionary, Dutch section
Tiny is “a male given name”
Hypocoristic form of Martijn/Martinus, Constantijn and other names ending in -tijn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Dutch section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tiny?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,317, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
69 babies in 1920, the peak
Tiny peaked in 1920, when 69 babies were given it (58 girls, #967 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 6 | #13,317 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,432 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,749 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,321 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,949 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,062 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #9,033 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,731 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,356 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,390 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 12 | #5,182 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,487 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,169 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,079 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,582 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #4,025 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,175 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,769 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,468 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,835 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,821 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,904 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,785 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,286 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 18 | #3,051 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,813 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,094 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,445 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,475 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,037 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 29 | #2,019 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 15 | #3,009 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,358 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,322 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,385 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,332 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,504 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,691 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,524 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,201 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,657 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,739 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,343 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,700 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,745 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,439 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 31 | #1,344 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 36 | #1,228 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,301 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 35 | #1,227 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 34 | #1,241 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,257 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,440 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 42 | #1,115 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 30 | #1,374 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,565 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,334 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,828 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 35 | #1,382 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 29 | #1,535 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 54 | #1,031 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 53 | #1,080 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 56 | #1,012 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 41 | #1,228 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 40 | #1,235 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 58 | #967 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 39 | #1,210 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 51 | #1,016 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 50 | #996 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 33 | #1,273 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,135 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,655 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 31 | #977 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 30 | #936 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 19 | #1,030 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 33 | #751 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 20 | #931 | 0.06 |
| 1908 | 16 | #1,043 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,086 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 17 | #913 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 16 | #963 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 17 | #905 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 13 | #1,023 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 15 | #933 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 14 | #914 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 14 | #1,050 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,384 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 15 | #915 | 0.06 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,373 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 14 | #899 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,343 | 0.03 |
| 1893 | 14 | #821 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,266 | 0.03 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,520 | 0.03 |
| 1890 | 10 | #934 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,261 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 12 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1887 | 7 | #1,028 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,098 | 0.04 |
| 1884 | 13 | #610 | 0.10 |
| 1882 | 8 | #733 | 0.07 |
| 1881 | 5 | #935 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tiny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,248 Americans recorded as Tiny, 93% are girls and 7% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tiny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tiny, and how old are they?
An estimated 655 Americans named Tiny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (29% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 59 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,136 people named Tiny (852 women and girls, 284 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 816 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% above 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).
Where are babies named Tiny born?
The states with the most babies named Tiny are Georgia, Texas and Alabama, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 144 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Texas | 72 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 60 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 39 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Mississippi | 31 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Arkansas | 24 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Oklahoma | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Tiny is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tiny is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 2.4 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 Tiny 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 328,717 babies since 1880, Tiny is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 562 babies recorded by SSA was a Tiny (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 Tiny
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 Tiny and names like it
- Compare Tiny and TinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sTiny peaked in 1920.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tiny since 1910.
- Dutch namesWiktionary’s origin for Tiny: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Tiny.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tiny alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.