In 2025, 61 US girls were named Tina, making it the 2,815th most common girls’ name of the year, down 157 places from #2,658 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 66 girls named Tina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #18, reached in 1972. The most girls given the name in a single year was 14,772, in 1968. For comparison, it was #1,462 in 2015 and #290 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tina in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 17 babies with the name. In all, 293,050 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 126,772 babies named Tina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 946 US girls were named Tina; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 146. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,349 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tina ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #1,620 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elizabeth (1,693,973 babies since 1880), Betty (1,004,857 babies since 1880), Isabel (133,977 babies since 1880) and Isabelle (107,782 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Teana, Teona and Tyna are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Christina.
Meaning
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