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Tinamarie vs Tinika

American parents have registered 1,159 Tinamaries since 1880, against 565 Tinikas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tinamarie against Tinika, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tinamarie Tinika

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 52 years in which either name was published, Tinamarie for 43 years and Tinika for 9 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Tinamarie Tinika
Total US births 1,159565
Most in one year 6049
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,100540
Median age today 5147
Peak year 19681976
Best rank 1,459th girls1,865th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19551967
Girls / boys 1,159 / 0565 / 0

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 Tinamaries alive today are over 51; half the Tinikas are over 47. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tinamarie and Tinika.