Tennille
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · Last seen for boys in 1977 at #4,582
Given to girls 99.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1976 · 769 births
- Debut · girls
- 103 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,184since 1975
Tennille over time
Rank among girls' names. Tennille has never cracked the top 300 here.
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 | #14,942 | 5 | — | |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | — | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
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| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | — | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | — | |
| 2010 | — | — | ||
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | — | |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | — | |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | — | |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | — | |
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| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | — | |
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| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | — | |
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| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | — | |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 | — | |
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| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | — | |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | — | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | — | |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | — | |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | — | |
| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | — | |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | — | |
| 1987 | #4,122 | 20 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,459 | 25 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,170 | 28 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,574 | 36 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,135 | 46 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,641 | 70 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,406 | 87 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,026 | 140 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,169 | 113 | — | |
| 1978 | #981 | 141 | — | |
| 1977 | #462 | 425 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #300 | 769 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #1,127 | 103 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tennille! It came in at #1,127, and was given to 103 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1992, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Tennille
- 2,781 spots since 2024 (#12,161 → #14,942)
- Biggest jump: 827 spots in 1976 (#1,127 → #300)
- Biggest drop: 519 spots in 1978 (#462 → #981)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1976 at #300 (769 births)
- Births halved by 1978, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1976–1978
- Highest: 1 in 1,905 girls born in 1976 were named Tennille (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 71.0% of all girls named Tennille (1,551) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1,551 | #300 (1976) | #808 |
| 1980s | 479 | #1,026 (1980) | #3,129 |
| 1990s | 70 | #8,132 (1996) | #9,141 |
| 2000s | 60 | #7,828 (2004) | #12,333 |
| 2010s | 12 | #13,483 (2012) | #15,124 |
| 2020s | 12 | #12,161 (2024) | #13,552 |
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.
Tennille in 1976
Top girls' names in 1976
Top boys' names in 1976
More about 1976
girls
1,465,099 girls got a published name in 1976; 1 in 1,905 of them was named Tennille, which outranked 97.3% of the 10,913 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,569,007 boys got a published name in 1976; 1 in 196,126 of them was named Tennille, which outranked 38.2% of the 6,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,724Yul9
- #3,724Yvon9
- #3,724Zalmen9
- #4,012Tennille8
- #4,012Aasim8
- #4,012Abrahan8
- #4,012Acie8
- #4,418Abasi7
- #4,418Abbas7
- #4,418Abdon7
Tied with 405 names at #4,012; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.