Tenzin

Where Tenzin comes from

Borrowed from Tibetan བསྟན་འཛིན (bstan 'dzin).
— Wiktionary's entry for Tenzin
  • Tibetan
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1992
    First appearance
    #7,422 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2014
    Peak, #1,751
    86 babies named Tenzin — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2024
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from Tibetan.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.