Tennessee
#4,878 for girls in 2025, 27 births · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to girls 72.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1884 · 14 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 986since 1880
Tennessee over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,878 | 27 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | #7,257 | 11 |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #5,028 | 26 | #5,215 | 18 |
| 2021 | #3,801 | 39 | #4,780 | 20 |
| 2020 | #5,667 | 21 | #5,235 | 17 |
| 2019 | #4,162 | 34 | #5,153 | 18 |
| 2018 | #4,562 | 30 | #3,993 | 26 |
| 2017 | #4,384 | 32 | #3,781 | 28 |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 | #4,199 | 24 |
| 2015 | #4,981 | 27 | #3,775 | 28 |
| 2014 | #5,456 | 24 | #4,866 | 19 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #6,094 | 13 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #7,640 | 9 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #6,520 | 11 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | — | |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | — | |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | — | |
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| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #7,792 | 6 |
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| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | — | |
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| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
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| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 | — | |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 | — | |
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| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 | — | |
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| 1934 | #3,802 | 6 | — | |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | — | |
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 | — | |
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| 1930 | #3,658 | 7 | — | |
| 1929 | #3,682 | 7 | — | |
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 | — | |
| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 | — | |
| 1926 | #2,708 | 12 | — | |
| 1925 | #3,362 | 9 | — | |
| 1924 | #4,002 | 7 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
| 1922 | #3,152 | 10 | — | |
| 1921 | #2,762 | 12 | — | |
| 1920 | #3,957 | 7 | — | |
| 1919 | #2,640 | 12 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,376 | 14 | — | |
| 1917 | #1,996 | 17 | — | |
| 1916 | #2,246 | 14 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,050 | 15 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,009 | 12 | — | |
| 1913 | #2,827 | 6 | — | |
| 1912 | #1,719 | 11 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,656 | 9 | — | |
| 1910 | #1,634 | 9 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,369 | 10 | — | |
| 1908 | #1,439 | 9 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,639 | 7 | — | |
| 1906 | #1,154 | 11 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,538 | 7 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,050 | 12 | — | |
| 1903 | #1,440 | 7 | — | |
| 1902 | #972 | 13 | — | |
| 1901 | #1,466 | 6 | — | |
| 1900 | #1,431 | 8 | — | |
| 1899 | #1,099 | 9 | — | |
| 1898 | #1,700 | 5 | — | |
| 1897 | #1,094 | 9 | — | |
| 1896 | #999 | 11 | — | |
| 1895 | #1,053 | 10 | — | |
| 1894 | #1,237 | 7 | — | |
| 1893 | #1,437 | 5 | — | |
| 1892 | #1,278 | 6 | — | |
| 1891 | #1,006 | 8 | — | |
| 1890 | #940 | 9 | — | |
| 1889 | #1,279 | 5 | — | |
| 1888 | #1,276 | 5 | — | |
| 1887 | #693 | 11 | — | |
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | #695 | 10 | — | |
| 1884 | #556 | 14 | — | |
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | #596 | 10 | — | |
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | #836 | 5 | — | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Tennessee was already there! It came in at #836, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1881, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Tennessee
- 1,084 spots since 2024 (#5,962 → #4,878)
- 789 spots since 2020 (#5,667 → #4,878)
- 103 spots since 2015 (#4,981 → #4,878)
- Biggest jump: 494 spots in 1902 (#1,466 → #972)
- Biggest drop: 583 spots in 1888 (#693 → #1,276)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1884 at #556 (14 births)
- Births halved by 1886, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1884–1885
- Highest: 1 in 9,216 girls born in 1884 were named Tennessee (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 59,528 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 23.1% of all girls named Tennessee (228) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2015, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 60 | #556 (1884) | #847 |
| 1890s | 79 | #940 (1890) | #1,184 |
| 1900s | 90 | #972 (1902) | #1,350 |
| 1910s | 119 | #1,634 (1910) | #2,115 |
| 1920s | 79 | #2,708 (1926) | #3,812 |
| 1930s | 35 | #3,658 (1930) | #3,929 |
| 1940s | 23 | #3,503 (1940) | #4,155 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 38 | #8,334 (1997) | #10,700 |
| 2000s | 81 | #9,892 (2004) | #12,085 |
| 2010s | 228 | #4,162 (2019) | #6,251 |
| 2020s | 154 | #3,801 (2021) | #5,181 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tennessee in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 49,364 of them was named Tennessee, which outranked 76.9% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,072Zaia35
- #4,072Zaiya35
- #4,072Zianna35
- #4,162Tennessee34
- #4,162Aayat34
- #4,162Adelita34
- #4,162Adhara34
- #4,260Aayla33
- #4,260Adaley33
- #4,260Addeline33
Tied with 97 names at #4,162; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 99,679 of them was named Tennessee, which outranked 63.5% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,951Ziare19
- #4,951Zlatan19
- #4,951Zymeir19
- #5,153Tennessee18
- #5,153Aaren18
- #5,153Abdulahi18
- #5,153Aboubacar18
- #5,340Aadyn17
- #5,340Aakash17
- #5,340Abisai17
Tied with 186 names at #5,153; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.