Tiny
Tiny is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 610th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192058 births
- Best rank
- #610in 1884
- Since 1881
- 2,248people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,087 girls have been named Tiny in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 58 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 58 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 161 boys have also been given it, 7.2% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tiny | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 57 | |
| 1890s | 86 | |
| 1900s | 156 | |
| 1910s | 340 | |
| 1920s | 421 | |
| 1930s | 326 | |
| 1940s | 202 | |
| 1950s | 191 | |
| 1960s | 170 | |
| 1970s | 97 | |
| 1980s | 30 | |
| 1990s | 11 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Tiny was the 967th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Tiny
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elnorapeak 1924
- Easterpeak 1925
- Ardeliapeak 1924
- Louisepeak 1921
- Rosiapeak 1925
- Rosepeak 1917
- Alicepeak 1921
- Classiepeak 1922
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.