Tinsley
Tinsley reached its high-water mark in 2020 at number 718, and has been recorded 4,747 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,109th. About 4,700 Tinsleys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Tinsley boys named Tinsley
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,747
- Estimated living today
- 4,700
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2020
- Best rank
- 718th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,109th
- First recorded
- 1919
- Girls / boys
- 4,659 / 88
How old the living Tinsleys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,747 babies given the name since 1919, about 4,700 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 4,400 of them are children and 19 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From the unattested Old English personal name *Tynni + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Tinsley is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Tinsley is most concentrated in Georgia (3.0×), Tennessee (2.9×), South Carolina (2.7×), Arkansas (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2020
The most popular girls’ names the year Tinsley peaked:
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Tinsley 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.