Tinsley
#1,109 for girls in 2025, 213 births · Last seen for boys in 2017 at #12,246
Given to girls 98.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 388 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,659since 1982
Tinsley over time
Rank among girls' names. Tinsley has never cracked the top 700 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 | #1,109 | 213 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,369 | 166 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,001 | 254 | — | |
| 2022 | #915 | 300 | — | |
| 2021 | #900 | 301 | — | |
| 2020 | #718 | 388 | — | |
| 2019 | #805 | 341 | — | |
| 2018 | #773 | 353 | — | |
| 2017 | #838 | 324 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #965 | 280 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,007 | 266 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,134 | 221 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,093 | 224 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,188 | 207 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,061 | 232 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,206 | 200 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,892 | 60 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #2,773 | 65 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 | — | |
| 2006 | #5,086 | 27 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #5,113 | 25 | — | |
| 2004 | #6,768 | 17 | — | |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,381 | 28 | — | |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | — | |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | — | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | — | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | — | |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | — | |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 | — | |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | — | |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | — | |
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| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | — | |
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | — | |
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| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
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| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
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| 1947 | — | #2,862 | 8 | |
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| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
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| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
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| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
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| 1926 | — | #3,385 | 7 | |
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| 1920 | — | #3,208 | 8 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Tinsley! It came in at #10,517, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1982–1984, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Tinsley
- 260 spots since 2024 (#1,369 → #1,109)
- 391 spots since 2020 (#718 → #1,109)
- 102 spots since 2015 (#1,007 → #1,109)
- Biggest jump: 127 spots in 2017 (#965 → #838)
- Biggest drop: 182 spots in 2021 (#718 → #900)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2020 at #718 (388 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2016–2022
- Highest: 1 in 4,166 girls born in 2020 were named Tinsley (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,546 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 56.8% of all girls named Tinsley (2,648) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 31 | #7,749 (1986) | #9,449 |
| 1990s | 68 | #5,713 (1994) | #10,275 |
| 2000s | 290 | #2,773 (2008) | #5,707 |
| 2010s | 2,648 | #773 (2018) | #1,007 |
| 2020s | 1,622 | #718 (2020) | #1,002 |
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.
Tinsley in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 5,329 of them was named Tinsley, which outranked 95.5% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
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- #838Tinsley324
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- #845Aiyana322
Tied with 4 names at #838; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 370,191 of them was named Tinsley, which outranked 14.1% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,016 names at #12,246; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.