Tenzin
#3,975 for girls in 2025, 36 births · #2,230 for boys in 2025, 63 births
Given to boys 56.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 86 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,653since 1992
Tenzin over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,975 | 36 | #2,230 | 63 |
| 2024 | #3,176 | 50 | #2,261 | 63 |
| 2023 | #2,646 | 66 | #2,693 | 48 |
| 2022 | #3,313 | 48 | #2,168 | 67 |
| 2021 | #3,339 | 47 | #2,464 | 54 |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 | #2,212 | 62 |
| 2019 | #2,923 | 56 | #1,974 | 74 |
| 2018 | #3,050 | 53 | #2,122 | 66 |
| 2017 | #3,145 | 51 | #1,844 | 80 |
| 2016 | #3,182 | 51 | #1,774 | 86 |
| 2015 | #3,024 | 56 | #1,895 | 77 |
| 2014 | #3,041 | 55 | #1,751 | 86 |
| 2013 | #3,218 | 50 | #1,903 | 74 |
| 2012 | #3,094 | 54 | #1,787 | 83 |
| 2011 | #3,173 | 52 | #2,017 | 67 |
| 2010 | #3,256 | 50 | #2,069 | 65 |
| 2009 | #2,852 | 61 | #2,143 | 63 |
| 2008 | #3,158 | 53 | #2,265 | 58 |
| 2007 | #3,482 | 47 | #2,235 | 59 |
| 2006 | #4,073 | 36 | #2,698 | 43 |
| 2005 | #3,809 | 38 | #2,467 | 46 |
| 2004 | #4,707 | 28 | #2,643 | 40 |
| 2003 | #3,869 | 35 | #3,119 | 30 |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 | #2,556 | 38 |
| 2001 | #5,364 | 21 | #3,061 | 29 |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 | #2,621 | 35 |
| 1999 | #3,804 | 31 | #2,865 | 29 |
| 1998 | #4,796 | 22 | #2,926 | 27 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | — | #5,928 | 9 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
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| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1992
The first year at least five boys were named Tenzin! It came in at #7,422, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1993, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 31 spots since 2024 (#2,261 → #2,230)
- 18 spots since 2020 (#2,212 → #2,230)
- 335 spots since 2015 (#1,895 → #2,230)
Rise & fade · boys
22 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2014 at #1,751 (86 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 22,067
- Highest: 1 in 22,067 boys born in 2016 were named Tenzin (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,112 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,751 in 2014, was only 1 in 22,336 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 45.9% of all boys named Tenzin (758) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
- Mostly girls until 2023, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 97 | #2,865 (1999) | #5,390 |
| 2000s | 441 | #2,143 (2009) | #2,581 |
| 2010s | 758 | #1,751 (2014) | #1,914 |
| 2020s | 357 | #2,168 (2022) | #2,338 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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