Meaning not yet researched.
Tennille: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #300 in 1976.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #300 in 1976; #17,033 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tennille in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#17,033 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1976, at #300.
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Tennille: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #300 in 1976 · most girls in one year: 769 (1976).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Tennille, making it the 17,033rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,685 places from #13,348 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 7 girls named Tennille in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #300, reached in 1976. That year also had the most girls given the name: 769. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tennille in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 103 babies. In all, 2,199 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,566 babies named Tennille.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12 US girls were named Tennille; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 7. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tenille (998 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tennile, Tenelle and Tennelle 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: Tennile (132), Tenelle (67), Tennelle (64), Teneille (50), Tenile (25), Tenielle (24), Tennell (18), Tennielle (13), Tenniel (11), Teneile (5), Tenneill (5), Tenneille (5), and more.
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 Tennille in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,033 | — | — |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,348 | — | — |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,849 | — | — |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,352 | — | — |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,953 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,317 | — | — |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,347 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,019 | — | — |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,212 | — | — |
| 2002 | 9 | #11,025 | — | — |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,499 | — | — |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,755 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,973 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,772 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,683 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,474 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,507 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,283 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,301 | — | — |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,507 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,875 | — | — |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,268 | — | — |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,547 | — | — |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,237 | — | — |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,621 | — | — |
| 1983 | 46 | #2,154 | — | — |
| 1982 | 70 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1981 | 87 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1980 | 140 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1979 | 113 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1978 | 141 | #984 | — | — |
| 1977 | 425 | #462 | 7 | #5,069 |
| 1976 | 769 | #300 | 8 | #4,380 |
| 1975 | 103 | #1,137 | — | — |
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).