Tennie
Tennie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 292nd, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191873 births
- Best rank
- #292in 1884
- Since 1880
- 2,777people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,777 girls have been named Tennie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 73 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 73 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1917, and the 1910s alone account for 18%. It has spent 40 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tennie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 307 | |
| 1890s | 383 | |
| 1900s | 374 | |
| 1910s | 506 | |
| 1920s | 464 | |
| 1930s | 257 | |
| 1940s | 175 | |
| 1950s | 127 | |
| 1960s | 104 | |
| 1970s | 48 | |
| 1980s | 32 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Tennie was the 847th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Tennie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mittiepeak 1920
- Salliepeak 1916
- Nanniepeak 1920
- Lillapeak 1918
- Sophroniapeak 1900
- Vinniepeak 1916
- Tildapeak 1924
- Sudiepeak 1916
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.