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
- 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
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 | #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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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.
See more about Tenzin
- 31 spots since 2024 (#2,261 → #2,230)
- 18 spots since 2020 (#2,212 → #2,230)
- 335 spots since 2015 (#1,895 → #2,230)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2014 at #1,751 (86 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 45.9% of all boys named Tenzin (758) were born in this decade
- 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.
Tenzin in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 34,746 of them was named Tenzin, which outranked 83.2% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,139Siobhan52
- #3,139Skylyn52
- #3,139Sunshine52
- #3,182Tenzin51
- #3,182Aahana51
- #3,182Adia51
- #3,182Alanie51
- #3,229Aashi50
- #3,229Ailany50
- #3,229Ailee50
Tied with 46 names at #3,182; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 22,067 of them was named Tenzin, which outranked 87.5% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,763Rafe87
- #1,763Renzo87
- #1,763Shaurya87
- #1,774Tenzin86
- #1,774Breck86
- #1,774Fitzgerald86
- #1,774Flint86
- #1,788Alessio85
- #1,788Aris85
- #1,788Brandt85
Tied with 13 names at #1,774; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.