Meaning not yet researched.
Tenley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 72 in 2025. Its best rank was #425 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #425 in 2011; #2,481 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tenley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,481 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #425.
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Tenley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 72 girls in 2025. Peak: #425 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 736 (2011).
In 2025, 72 US girls were named Tenley, making it the 2,481st most common girls’ name of the year, down 348 places from #2,133 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 90 girls named Tenley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #425, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 736. For comparison, it was #671 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tenley in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 12 babies. In all, 6,859 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,983 babies named Tenley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,462 US girls were named Tenley; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 569. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,323 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tenley ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #1,610 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Tinley (3,663 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tynlee, Tinlee and Tenlee are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tynlee (455), Tinlee (452), Tenlee (296), Tennley (67), Tynley (55), Tenli (32), Tenly (27), Tenlie (20), Tinnley (12).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Tenley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,610 | #626 |
| Texas | 6 | #3,257 | #1,031 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,481 | — | — |
| 2024 | 90 | #2,133 | — | — |
| 2023 | 117 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 2022 | 173 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 2021 | 188 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 2020 | 237 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 2019 | 279 | #949 | — | — |
| 2018 | 361 | #755 | 5 | #13,882 |
| 2017 | 376 | #749 | — | — |
| 2016 | 569 | #549 | — | — |
| 2015 | 427 | #671 | — | — |
| 2014 | 458 | #626 | — | — |
| 2013 | 517 | #563 | — | — |
| 2012 | 583 | #522 | — | — |
| 2011 | 736 | #425 | — | — |
| 2010 | 672 | #460 | — | — |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,933 | — | — |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,750 | — | — |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,211 | — | — |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,975 | — | — |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,861 | — | — |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,619 | — | — |
| 2003 | 79 | #2,201 | — | — |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,155 | — | — |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,674 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,679 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,216 | — | — |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,740 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,366 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #8,034 | — | — |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,630 | — | — |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,236 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #8,022 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,945 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,118 | — | — |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,986 | — | — |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,257 | — | — |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,906 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,460 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,215 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,297 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,183 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,508 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,283 | — | — |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,404 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,105 | — | — |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,937 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,844 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #6,012 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,901 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,332 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,072 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,394 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,519 | — | — |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,930 | — | — |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,780 | — | — |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,804 | — | — |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,944 | — | — |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,979 | — | — |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,271 | — | — |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,069 | — | — |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,911 | — | — |
| 1956 | 25 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,761 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,688 | — | — |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,463 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).