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Teng vs Tenley

American parents have registered 6,859 Tenleys since 1880, against 354 Tengs. Tenley is still ahead, with 72 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Teng against Tenley, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Teng Tenley

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 67 years in which either name was published, Tenley for 52 years and Teng for 15 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Teng Tenley
Total US births 3546,859
Most in one year 34736
Babies in 2025 under 572
Estimated living today 3406,800
Median age today 3612
Peak year 19922011
Best rank 2,214th boys424th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,458th
First recorded 19801953
Girls / boys 0 / 3546,854 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tengs alive today are over 36; half the Tenleys are over 12. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Teng and Tenley.