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Tenille

About 998 American babies have been named Tenille since 1975, most of them around 1976. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 960 Tenilles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 44.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Tenille

By the numbers

Total US births
998
Estimated living today
960
Median age today
44
Peak year
1976
Best rank
1,009th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1975

How old the living Tenilles are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 998 babies given the name since 1975, about 960 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1981 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Tenilles

People named Tenille with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Tenille is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Tenille is most concentrated in Illinois (4.5×), Ohio (2.1×), New York (1.9×), California (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1976

The most popular girls’ names the year Tenille peaked:

All the names of 1976

Related names

Tenille against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.