Tenille vs Tennille

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Tenille Tennille

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 43 years in which either name was published, Tenille for 22 years and Tennille for 21 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.

• 1975–1984 Tennille ahead
• 1988–1999 Tenille ahead, apart from one short spell
• 2009–2012 Tennille ahead
• 2019–2024 Tenille ahead

10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tennilles alive today are over 48; half the Tenilles are over 44. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Tenille Illinois (4.5×), Ohio (2.1×), New York (1.9×)
• Tennille Utah (3.5×), Illinois (1.8×), Maryland (1.7×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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