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Tennyson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,293 in 1915.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,293 in 1915; #4,521 in 2025. About 74% of babies named Tennyson in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,521 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1915, at #2,293.
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Tennyson: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,293 in 1915 · most boys in one year: 48 (2014).
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Tennyson, making it the 4,521st most common boys’ name of the year, down 634 places from #3,887 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 29 boys named Tennyson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,293, reached in 1915. The most boys given the name in a single year was 48, in 2014. For comparison, it was #2,676 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Tennyson, making it the 11,833rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 225 places from #12,058 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 8 girls named Tennyson in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,622, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 43. For comparison, it was #6,015 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tennyson in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 1,586 US babies have been given the name, 25% of them girls and 75% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 646 babies named Tennyson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 321 US boys were named Tennyson; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Tennison, Tennasyn and Tenneson are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tennison (51), Tennasyn (10), Tenneson (5).
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 Tennyson 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 | 8 | #11,833 | 23 | #4,521 |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,058 | 29 | #3,887 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,450 | 21 | #4,871 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,960 | 31 | #3,683 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,930 | 24 | #4,348 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,611 | 35 | #3,262 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,779 | 43 | #2,893 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,996 | 44 | #2,788 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,622 | 37 | #3,190 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,074 | 34 | #3,353 |
| 2015 | 22 | #6,015 | 46 | #2,676 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,440 | 48 | #2,578 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,235 | 44 | #2,708 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,183 | 32 | #3,440 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,162 | 34 | #3,296 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,190 | 39 | #3,006 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,932 | 29 | #3,710 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,048 | 34 | #3,338 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,972 | 29 | #3,680 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,557 | 26 | #3,876 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,275 | 18 | #4,801 |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,061 | 19 | #4,584 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,320 | 12 | #6,211 |
| 2002 | — | — | 13 | #5,689 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #7,450 |
| 2000 | — | — | 18 | #4,367 |
| 1999 | — | — | 14 | #5,005 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #8,367 |
| 1997 | — | — | 17 | #4,034 |
| 1996 | — | — | 17 | #4,000 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,910 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,763 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #5,197 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,452 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #9,359 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #6,351 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #7,224 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #6,171 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,973 |
| 1978 | — | — | 12 | #3,379 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,875 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,274 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,173 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,577 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #4,192 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,549 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,617 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,597 |
| 1959 | — | — | 11 | #2,647 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,454 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,492 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,842 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,926 |
| 1949 | — | — | 9 | #2,782 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #4,138 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,211 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #3,138 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,295 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,842 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,982 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #4,093 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,230 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,631 |
| 1930 | — | — | 10 | #2,767 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,477 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,668 |
| 1927 | — | — | 9 | #3,123 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,668 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #4,148 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #4,192 |
| 1922 | — | — | 12 | #2,619 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #4,275 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,467 |
| 1919 | — | — | 11 | #2,646 |
| 1918 | — | — | 11 | #2,683 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,181 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,476 |
| 1915 | — | — | 12 | #2,293 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,227 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,212 |
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).