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 1977
Top girls' names in 1977
Top boys' names in 1977
More about 1977
girls
1,533,146 girls got a published name in 1977; 1 in 3,607 of them was named Tennille, which outranked 95.9% of the 11,329 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 234,746 of them was named Tennille, which outranked 33.2% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,164Zephaniah8
- #4,164Ziad8
- #4,164Zion8
- #4,582Tennille7
- #4,582Abasi7
- #4,582Abdalla7
- #4,582Abhay7
- #5,123Aamir6
- #5,123Aaryn6
- #5,123Abbas6
Tied with 540 names at #4,582; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.