Tiny

Where Tiny comes from

Tiny hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #830 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #583
    13 babies named Tiny — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1894
    Tiny Sandford born
    American actor
  5. 1903
    Tiny Thompson born
    Canadian ice hockey goaltender: first goaltender to stop the puck by catching it
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Tiny Sandford · American actor, 1894–1961
  • Tiny Thompson · Canadian ice hockey goaltender: first goaltender to stop the puck by catching it, 1903–1981
  • Tiny Kahn · American drummer, 1924–1953
  • Tiny Kox · politician from the Netherlands, born 1953
  • Tiny Broadwick · Skydiver and stunt performer, 1893–1978

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.