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Tenia vs Tennille

American parents have registered 2,199 Tennilles since 1880, against 981 Tenias. Tennille is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tenia Tennille

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 66 years in which either name was published, Tenia for 50 years and Tennille for 16 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Tenia Tennille
Total US births 9812,199
Most in one year 38777
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 9202,100
Median age today 4048
Peak year 19981976
Best rank 3,222nd girls300th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked14,942nd
First recorded 19181975
Girls / boys 981 / 02,184 / 15

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 Tennilles alive today are over 48; half the Tenias are over 40. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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