Meaning not yet researched.
Tinsley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 213 in 2025. Its best rank was #721 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #721 in 2020; #1,112 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tinsley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,112 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #721.
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Tinsley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 213 girls in 2025. Peak: #721 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 388 (2020).
In 2025, 213 US girls were named Tinsley, making it the 1,112th most common girls’ name of the year, up 261 places from #1,373 in 2024. That is 47 more than the 166 girls named Tinsley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #721, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 388. For comparison, it was #1,010 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tinsley in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 6 babies. In all, 4,747 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,653 babies named Tinsley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,920 US girls were named Tinsley; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 388. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,546 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tinsley ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #334 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Tinslee, Tensley and Tinzley are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tinslee (435), Tensley (295), Tinzley (159), Tynslee (151), Tinzlee (89), Tynsley (50), Tinslie (10), Tenzley (6), Tenslee (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 Tinsley 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 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 10 | #334 | #443 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #542 | #660 |
| Missouri | 11 | #554 | #1,114 |
| Georgia | 18 | #609 | #591 |
| Alabama | 8 | #630 | #545 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #673 | #769 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #741 | #500 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #898 | #1,222 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #908 | #366 |
| Indiana | 7 | #911 | #572 |
| Virginia | 8 | #927 | #940 |
| Michigan | 8 | #955 | #1,481 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #973 | #416 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,108 | #1,154 |
| Texas | 22 | #1,220 | #748 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,538 | #940 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,613 | — |
| California | 5 | #3,491 | #2,299 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 213 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 2024 | 166 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 2023 | 254 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 2022 | 300 | #916 | — | — |
| 2021 | 301 | #900 | — | — |
| 2020 | 388 | #721 | — | — |
| 2019 | 341 | #807 | — | — |
| 2018 | 353 | #774 | — | — |
| 2017 | 324 | #842 | 5 | #14,072 |
| 2016 | 280 | #966 | — | — |
| 2015 | 266 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 2014 | 221 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 2013 | 224 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 2012 | 207 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 2011 | 232 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 2010 | 200 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,934 | 6 | #12,333 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,800 | — | — |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,798 | — | — |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,220 | 5 | #13,825 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,249 | — | — |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,059 | — | — |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,553 | — | — |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,491 | — | — |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,978 | — | — |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,546 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,423 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,423 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,606 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,712 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #8,042 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,968 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,494 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,229 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,693 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,476 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,234 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,952 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,192 | — | — |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,425 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,382 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,771 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #4,160 |
| 1947 | — | — | 8 | #3,074 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,301 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,470 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,897 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,993 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,674 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,475 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #4,122 |
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).